The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
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@AlSweigart Now there’s only ONE rule: Don’t buy books written after 2021.
@mthie @AlSweigart Which is a good principle as long as the non-fiction book you're buying isn't subject to changing anytime soon so that excludes most science books, some mathematical books and quite a lot of computing books. STEM kids are going to be fucked by this.
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This prompt ended up in a textbook? Somebody got paid for this, and perhaps even someone else got paid to edit it?
@albertcardona @AlSweigart This textbook is probably from #india (I am going by the names and phone numbers provided in the table)
I have seen similar things happening in #pakistan where a top #english #newspaper the daily DAWN published something in the newspaper where the report carried the AI generated text
I haven't seen something like this here in textbooks but I can expect this happening here as well ! PS. Most school textbooks have this kind of cringy typesetting here in
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart
This is going to get so funny when they hard pivot to explicit advertisements in these things. -
The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart i can't imagine any of them bothering to read that
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@liquor_american @AlSweigart Yes, please... People need to be warned and avoid buying stuff like this.
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart
That was true before AI. The irritation of being asked to comment on the consultant's report that was verbatim the draft I'd asked them for input on was palpable, and embarrassing for the grammatical and spelling errors that I'd not noticed when I wrote it.It was ever thus. The company only believes you when they pay someone else to tell them, and don't need to understand it, or even read what you wrote.
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart We have successfully renamed SQL to SLOPQL.
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart name and shame the text book.
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart and textbooks cost like $50+
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@AlSweigart so no one researched it, no one wrote it, no one copyedited it, and no one reviewed it. Let me guess: $50?
@cczona college textbook, $300. As a bonus, the AI can re-churn a new edition every single semester. Goodbye, used books!
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart Did they lease their LLM from Precious Roy? SUCKERS!
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart "but I always check it" no you don't, nobody does
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart It drives me crazy bc you say "well, it's wrong so often," and they're like, "Oh of course, that's why I check it," and NO ONE EVER CHECKS ANYTHING.
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart There’s no such thing as good writing. Only good editing.
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@cczona college textbook, $300. As a bonus, the AI can re-churn a new edition every single semester. Goodbye, used books!
@rotopenguin @cczona
Reading this I for one think of the environmental impact of printing this same garbage every year. And on top of that we now place the environmental impact of using writing this very garbage using ai…And then, on top of that, some poor student probably went into debt to buy this very garbage. Then realise that the information in this book isn’t even the same as what you can find online, but probably even worse!
I’m at a loss of words…
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart Whoever published that should just get out of the publishing business.
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart It's also the lukewarm garbage that is MS UI, that when you click the 'copy' button it includes that text.
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart this book is a grade-bearing requirement in "author's" university course isn't it?
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The people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
@AlSweigart Not personally a fan of book burning, but maybe in this case...?
