My high school is known for being sweaty because it has IB but also people use AI all the time here, to the extent that “chatgpt” is used as a verb. Unfortunately my classmates just want to get through their work as easily and possible and grab the diploma.
I tried to convince several people to not use AI or at LEAST use a different one from chatgpt, but I generally only got good results from people who were not taking very difficult classes. The more popular lot of Advanced Learning people even brushed me off as a “larper” when I tried talking to them about this.
How should I get more people to be willing to see chatgpt as something besides the easy way?
You’re looking at it wrong. They’re going to use AI. Instead show them how often it’s wrong. Find examples of it giving bad or incorrect responses. Get them involved. Ask them to try to trick it into lying or giving bad answers. Then kick it up a notch. Poison the data well. A few months back a reporter was able to convince AI that he was a hotdog eating champion by putting the right posts in the right places. Have them do a project where they invent a fake topic, seed it across the internet and watch how quickly AI gobbles it up. You’ll teach them how AI actually works by data harvesting and not to blindly trust it. How to check sources and verify content.
I treat AI like it’s a 10 year old research assistant that’s overly confident and occasionally wrong.
You have to check the citations, review the code, etc. and constantly give it rules.
Even then it’s a child that will disregard your rules and try to gas light you.
I gave Gemini a rule about ampersands, and it’s never gotten it right.