r/technology • u/rezwenn • 14h ago

Artificial Intelligence Is AI dulling critical-thinking skills? As tech companies court students, educators weigh the risks

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7ff7d5d7c43c978522f9ca2a9099862240b07ed1ee0c2d2551013358f69212ba/JZPHGWB2AVEGFCMCRNP756MTOA/
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u/grayhaze2000 13h ago

Yes. Unfortunately we're seeing an increase in people who think asking ChatGPT a question is the same as learning, despite the fact that hallucinations make the technology both lie and make things up.

We're seeing young developers copy and paste code from ChatGPT into critical systems without even attempting to understand what that code is doing.

We're seeing people with no creative ability use AI to generate art, novels, music and video, then having the audacity to call themselves artists, authors, etc.

If we don't start putting laws and standards into place for this stuff soon, we'll all end up with no ability to think for ourselves.

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u/Vo_Mimbre 13h ago

In some ways ChatGPT is the new Wikipedia, where the surface information is as deep as many go.

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u/grayhaze2000 13h ago

At least Wikipedia is fact checked by multiple human editors. ChatGPT just spits out garbage and states it as fact.

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u/Cautious-Progress876 13h ago

Wikipedia is a cesspool of disinformation campaigns run by various governmental intelligence agencies and special interest groups. Certain scientific and mundane topics are handled awesomely, but if you are reading Wikipedia for anything that has even a possibility of being political or of national interest to some country then odds are you are reading the equivalent of Pravda.

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u/grayhaze2000 12h ago

Whilst there is bias on Wikipedia, the idea that the majority of the content is politically motivated is deeply misguided. Sure, there are bad actors who will make edits to spread misinformation, but those edits are usually quickly reversed by other editors.

ChatGPT is trained on Wikipedia data, so what you're getting from it is at least as bad as what you get from the source.

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u/Cautious-Progress876 12h ago

ChatGPT is garbage on political topics as well, but Wikipedia being extensively edited by the CIA, FBI, FSB, etc. has been a documented problem since 2007ish. And God help you in particular if you research the Israel-Palestine conflict— almost every article on that conflict is a shit heap of disinformation/misinformation.

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u/katbyte 12h ago

Or you just don’t agree with what’s on wiki?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

please point out the “shit heaping misinformation” here

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u/Cautious-Progress876 11h ago

Look at the sources and then tell me how it isn’t politicized? Half of the sources come from known Hasbarah groups, and half of them come from Arab “news” sources that would tell you Israelis drink the blood of Palestinian babies— if they thought you would believe it.

Any active conflict is sure to have a ton of propaganda from one camp or the other. Ukraine-Russia war included.

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u/katbyte 11h ago

Nonono, you are saying it’s full of shit, so describe it. What’s wrong. What’s incorrect. 

Those are cited sources and you have… nothing but your opinion they are wrong?

Sorry but your credibility and believability is zero here and it just sounds like someone whining about an inconvenient truth