[HN Gopher] ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and thi...
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       ChatGPT robs students of motivation to write and think for
       themselves
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-03-28 19:25 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | throwaway5959 wrote:
       | Now do the calculator and arithmetic.
        
       | tehwebguy wrote:
       | No it just lets you be the editor instead of the writer
        
       | SxC97 wrote:
       | Students aren't writing because they're "motivated", they are
       | writing because they have to. It's a grade.
       | 
       | Motivated people will still write (perhaps in conjunction with
       | GPT) and think for themselves.
       | 
       | School papers and professional communication falls under the
       | umbrella of "necessary writing". This genre will be the first to
       | be automated.
       | 
       | Critical and creative writing is safe from replacement, at least
       | for now.
        
         | Sol- wrote:
         | > Students aren't writing because they're "motivated", they are
         | writing because they have to. It's a grade.
         | 
         | So what? That argument doesn't really make sense to me. An
         | educated populace is generally considered to be a good thing
         | and teenagers for instance aren't always sufficiently self-
         | motivated to learn how to write and think. Exercising your
         | thinking and writing muscle for the sake of getting a grade is
         | not necessarily a bad thing.
         | 
         | I suppose your claim seems to be that mandatory homework and
         | grades are generally useless. And perhaps you are okay with a
         | future where - when most cognitively demanding jobs have been
         | automated - much of of humanity as been reduced to mentally
         | incompetent beings dependent on AI. Does not seem so desirable
         | to me, however.
        
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       | coolestguy wrote:
       | Supermarkets rob citizens of the motivation to hunt and forage
       | for themselves
        
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