it’s “hard” because every peddler of AI is pushing it exactly in the way you say, and I agree, is wrong
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MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
For fucks sake people, it’s not hard. AI can be useful to generate drafts or give suggestions, but ultimately everything has to be tweaked/written by an actual human expert. AI is a tool, not a product. If something isn’t edited enough to have no trace of AI signature left, then you’re being lazy and putting out garbage.
Jhex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This is it exactly. I use ChatGPT to double check things when I’m second guessing myself and I use it to make assignments.
Almost everytime, I need to tweak things but it turns 40 minutes of work into 5-10 minutes.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Time after time, I see people who should know better fail at basic things like this.
Even I don’t get called out for AI-written responses, even though a big number of my messages here are technically written by AI. The key difference is that I actually take the time to write a first draft of what I want to say, then run it through ChatGPT to help clean up my word salad - and finally, I go over the output again to make it sound like me. The thinking is mine. AI just helps me communicate more clearly.
I’d never ask it to write an entire response from scratch without providing structure or points I want to make. All I want is for the person reading my message to understand what I’m actually trying to say - so they can respond to that, not to a misinterpretation of what I was trying to say.
I’ll just leave that first draft here to illustrate my point:
Time after time I see people that should know better to fail at basic things like this.
Even I don’t get called out for AI responses even though a huge number of my messages posted here are technically written by AI. However, the difference here is that I actually took time to first write the first draft of what I want to say only then to give it for chatGPT to make sense of my word salad only for me to then go over it’s output to make it sound like me again. The thinking is done by me - AI only helps me to communicate more clearly. I’d never ask it to write the entire response from ground up without providing any structure and points about what I want to say. All I want is the person reading this message to get as clear of an understanding as possible of what I’m trying to say so that they can respond to that rather than to misintrepretation of what I was trying to say.
Deebster@infosec.pub 1 day ago
This is a great use of AI and it’s caught some small errors like the wrong its (which is one I find distracting when reading). The editing is light enough that it’s still your voice, just with extra punctuation and fewer typos.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
[deleted]sepi@piefed.social 1 day ago
My wife tells me they have a moron at work that has to use MS Copilot to perform tasks such as counting the days between two dates. The person is incompetent and a mistake factory.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“no trace” isn’t a necessary bar. You can learn business theory from a presentation including a 3 armed gargoyle without loss of information. Materials just need to be checked to be factual, which this seems to meet.
Mr Business Professor is probably one of the highest paid instructors in the college and hos time is NOT well spent cruising the internet for PowerPoint images or formatting lecture materials.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Write a brief introductory paragraph on the subject of business theory as if you were a three-armed gargoyle teaching a first year college class on the subject.
Greetings, fledgling scholars! I am Professor Thraxxor, your three-armed guide to the mystic labyrinth of business theory—where spreadsheets whisper secrets and invisible hands tug at the fabric of markets. With one hand I’ll gesture toward classical economics, with another I’ll sketch diagrams of organizational behavior, and with the third—ah yes—that one’s just for throwing chalk at nappers. In this course, we’ll examine the ancient and evolving forces that govern commerce, from Adam Smith’s hallowed halls to the chaos of modern corporate strategy. Stay alert—capitalism waits for no one.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Sooner or later I’ll learn to caveat my AI comments to make clear I’m only talking about LLM/text-gen. I don’t personally care about image-gen. It’s garbage, but to quote Star Wars, sometimes “the garbage will do.”
Alaik@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Somewhat unrelated but I’ve never understood why business professors make so much more than others. I get their logic of basing it off what they could be paid private side but business degrees tend to skew things due to how overpaid CEOs of larger corporations are.
I know at the university nearby the difference between someone with a phd in business admin versus genetics is… vast, to say the least.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I get their logic of basing it off what they could be paid private side
Then you get it. They pay what they need to in order to get the talent they need for the course. Business school is often more expensive than other disciplines because of the high salaries needed to attract talent and businesses schools get a lot of sponsors, so the school is being compensated for the high salaries.
In short, it’s supply and demand. It’s a lot cheaper to find a PhD in genetics vs a PhD in business who is willing to work at a university.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I wish I knew the answer. I know one person who took that path and he is not a super bright guy and I’m not sure what value he brings… but business PhD and then teaching position in the 600k range. I did a rocket science PhD and finally took an industry job after like 6 years running a lab for less than 100k, but my advisor was around 180k with full faculty.
400k was the salary of the university president, so… you add the rocket science faculty to the president and you get a faculty salary in the business school? It doesn’t make a lot of sense. I suppose maybe because MBA is a high demand degree? If you figure it out let me know, I’d also like to know the answer.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think there’s a sweet spot you can hit, but sometimes I fight with it so long to get what I want, that by them, copy paste whatever is good enough… To be fair, I’m not an educator
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s a tool whose only purpose is to lie and generate bullshit. We’re right to be upset when we find out we paid a human expert top fucking dollar to give us bullshit.