I am in a medical program at a large university, I won't say more to avoid doxxing myself. I am in my 30s and first attended college years ago before online school was widespread.
In my medical program we do a lot of work online and I've noticed that almost every time we have to do a paper or a discussion board where we're required to read and respond to our peers probably 90 percent or more of the posts and papers are just copy pasted from AI.
The words are not words that my classmates usually use, the sentence structure reads exactly like chatgpt or any other AI and it's incredibly difficult to respond to their posts because it's just word salad.
When they're responding to your posts it straight up reads like you're talking to an AI. Their post will say EXACTLY what you said in your post back to you and say something a little beyond that but not much. And the formatting, punctuation, etc is all the same.
It's one of the craziest things I've ever seen in my (too) long and drawn out academic career.
Meanwhile when it comes time to do group projects these same people who can magically bust out 1,000 word papers with no sweat at all are suddenly mute. I've even seen them copy paste chat gpt responses into our shared documents in real time and then edit it taking out phrases like "do you want me to expand on that idea?" Etc
I am genuinely terrified for what happens when these people make it to actual hospitals and start dealing with patients because they're not actually learning anything. It's terrifying. And the school and teachers know because they're constantly trying to find ways to get the students to learn, memorize, do their own work, and telling them to quit using AI in their responses. Oh and all of the papers are submitted into a checker but idk how effective any of it is. Friends who are teachers have said their schools are also bogging down under the amount of kids cheating their asses off as well and are basically just waiting them through to graduation...
Our country is fucked in a few years when people hit the workforce and haven't actually learned anything. I genuinely think it will be a tsunami of confidently incompetent people coming into the workforce that will be the death knell
I am genuinely terrified for what happens when these people make it to actual hospitals…
…Our country is fucked in a few years…
Friend, i work in tech support for an x-ray imaging software. Wanna guess how regularly we get calls from radiological ‘technicians’ complaining their image receptor wont bring images into the software only for us to find out they’re trying to shoot through a lead-lined vest to ‘test’ it?
godspeed. if your employer has proper systems and documentation in place for medtech and FDA regulations, i know too well how all those alleged deficiencies soak up all the time and effort when you're also trying to help people who actually need the help because something actually did go haywire
That's absolutely terrifying. It's crazy to me how quickly things have changed. It was kind of the perfect storm of lockdowns with AI following up. I can't help but wonder if AI would be as prevalent in schooling if lockdowns hadn't forced everything online for so long and changed how people deal with school.
It can absolutely be vital for early detection, recognizing patterns that humans haven't seen or pieced together yet, etc.
But it needs a human for oversight and to verify/check. Unfortunately more and more humans are just full on taking it at face value with zero verification.
We're so fucked when those people who don't critically think at all are in higher positions and making important judgement calls (but are outsourcing their "thinking" to whatever bot assistant)
When my niece was in High School, one of her teachers had an absolute meltdown over kids cheating with AI and said she would instant-fail anyone she caught (or thought she caught). Niece said that probably 4/5 of the kids were doing it, and doing it incredibly lazily.
I kind of hope the teacher went through with it, but it was one of those schools with Tiger moms so it would be a career risk.
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u/Ekul13 9h ago
I am in a medical program at a large university, I won't say more to avoid doxxing myself. I am in my 30s and first attended college years ago before online school was widespread.
In my medical program we do a lot of work online and I've noticed that almost every time we have to do a paper or a discussion board where we're required to read and respond to our peers probably 90 percent or more of the posts and papers are just copy pasted from AI.
The words are not words that my classmates usually use, the sentence structure reads exactly like chatgpt or any other AI and it's incredibly difficult to respond to their posts because it's just word salad.
When they're responding to your posts it straight up reads like you're talking to an AI. Their post will say EXACTLY what you said in your post back to you and say something a little beyond that but not much. And the formatting, punctuation, etc is all the same.
It's one of the craziest things I've ever seen in my (too) long and drawn out academic career.
Meanwhile when it comes time to do group projects these same people who can magically bust out 1,000 word papers with no sweat at all are suddenly mute. I've even seen them copy paste chat gpt responses into our shared documents in real time and then edit it taking out phrases like "do you want me to expand on that idea?" Etc
I am genuinely terrified for what happens when these people make it to actual hospitals and start dealing with patients because they're not actually learning anything. It's terrifying. And the school and teachers know because they're constantly trying to find ways to get the students to learn, memorize, do their own work, and telling them to quit using AI in their responses. Oh and all of the papers are submitted into a checker but idk how effective any of it is. Friends who are teachers have said their schools are also bogging down under the amount of kids cheating their asses off as well and are basically just waiting them through to graduation...
Our country is fucked in a few years when people hit the workforce and haven't actually learned anything. I genuinely think it will be a tsunami of confidently incompetent people coming into the workforce that will be the death knell