My neighbor's kid asked me a question about his homework that made me worry.

He's 12, and his teacher had them use an AI chatbot to write a book report on 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. The kid told me, 'It wrote it faster, so I just turned it in.' That wasn't learning, it was just getting a task done. Are we setting up a generation to value speed over understanding?

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reesemoore3d agoMost Upvoted

Honestly, that sounds like a pretty smart use of time.

king.andrew13h ago

Is it really that different from copying a summary off the internet? The kid still had to ask the chatbot.

the_wesley3d ago

Eh, kids have been cheating on book reports forever... at least this way he's seeing how the tech works. Maybe the real problem is giving homework a chatbot can do.