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Comment Re:This keeps happening (Score 1) 58

If I write an article based on a giant e-book that I didn't read, and merely pulled out quotes an AI helped identify for me, then how am I supposed to know what context those quotes were provided in? Your suggestion to do a search and check the quotes does nothing to solve the problem that I have not read the book. It only functions to solve the problem of "I need to make it appear as if I have read the book."

If I had read the book, I could just use that basic search function to find the quotes to begin with (since I would know what I'm looking for), and since I would have to check the AI using that same search function, no time is saved, extra work has just been added.

Comment Re:This keeps happening (Score 1) 58

The problem is in cases like this where "oversight" would have taken just as much time as not using the AI to begin with.

A lot of coders can save time with AI because oftentimes "checking the work" means running a function. You test it the same way you would had you written it yourself.

But with writing, "checking the work" means doing the research that you were trying to avoid by using an AI. In the example from the article, he tried to use the AI to extract and organize quotes. If he had used the AI to do that and then double checked that everything was extracted correctly, would any time or effort have been saved? For the same reasons, math teachers can grade their students' work much faster than English teachers, and hence they can provide students with many more graded assignments.

The people peddling AI have no interest in distinguishing between when it can usefully solve a problem and when it cannot. They pitch it as the solution to everything.

Comment Re: Serious question (Score 2) 163

There is no income limit for the parents who claim these but there are restrictions on what it can be withdrawn for. Those restrictionsâ"education, starting a business, etc.â"coupled with how this will be claimed, means that it will mostly be used by the wealthy.

This is literally welfare for rich people.

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