“What are the positives and negatives of using ChatGPT (and other AI) in post-secondary?”

This is a question I need to answer for an essay competition thing, and while I do have ideas myself and from my professor when I asked for his opinions, I was hoping if anyone here had some insights to add.

Is it ethical that I ask for your aid? I don’t want to overstep. I would not use anyone’s name/usernames at all in this essay, at most I will cite sources on the matter.

While I think my current ideas about the pros and cons are good (more cons than pros in my opinion) but I want to know if I missed anything.

If needed, I will add what ideas I’ve come up with so far but for now I’ll leave that out.

Edit: I was tempted to post this in the “Ask Lemmygrad” community but I think thats a more educational community about communism specifically so I’ll stick to asking here.

  • starkillerfish (she)@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    9 months ago

    for me the arguments would be mostly negative because:

    1. using it does not train your research skills
    2. using it does not train your creative and academic writing skills
    3. it is often just wrong when synthesizing text

    so to me those are major cons in an educational context some positives would perhaps be:

    1. it is useful as a phrase bank, as it can quickly give ideas on how to put words together.
    2. it is alright at giving direction when starting research, sort of like wikipedia

    thats all i can think of so far

    • ElephantInTheRoom@lemmy.ml
      7·
      9 months ago

      Don’t forget about the privacy and copyright concerns. Scraping the internet for training data, copyrighted or not, and also logging every input for this purpose (and probably others).

      A pretty significant con in my opinion.

      • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mlOP
        5·
        9 months ago

        Copyright is one of the cons I have written down but I never thought of the privacy issues with AI…

        • ElephantInTheRoom@lemmy.ml
          7·
          9 months ago

          Most people don’t. Convenience is more important than privacy for most people, can’t blame you.

          I’m just a paranoid tech geek. So this is usually the first and strongest concern for me.

          • SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.mlOP
            3·
            9 months ago

            Honestly, being in this forum has got me on the privacy paranoia train so I get it. Sometimes i forget how many aspects of life/the internet invade on privacy. Like now, I had no idea that AI like ChatGPT invaded privacy.