'How did people from the late 1900s to early 2000s graduate': Lazy Gen Z college student brags about using AI for every assignment, gets dragged by the internet

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
May 4, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

Most of us college graduates know all too well that a university education doesn't come cheap. Call me old-fashioned, but for me, this was an incentive to actually attempt to learn something. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't always the most studious undergraduate. Nonetheless, when the time came for me to be handed that fancy piece of paper I felt like I was ever-so-slightly wiser thanks to the efforts I put in.

It's wild to think that the entirety of my education happened pre-AI craze, and even wilder how it has totally changed the landscape of learning for so many. This has been underlined in a recent controversial screenshot where a current college student revealed to the world how they used ChatGPT and QuillBot for all of their assignments. When it went viral, most people were not in agreement with this way of gaming the system. It isn't the best way to use your brainpower. 

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    "That's all I use"
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    jj @melodramateur Follow maybe an unpopular opinion but if you need to cheat to pass college you probably shouldn't be there
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    sorry, but how did people from the late 1900's to early 2000's graduate without using chat gpt and quilbot be that's all i use in uni Likes a 896 V 987 CAMPUS COMEDY carw campus_comedy_crew Follow
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    jj @melodramateur • 1d Replying to @melodramateur like my grades are kinda (i have a b average which i suppose isnt the worst, but still low compared to other stem majors) but im incredibly proud of the fact that ive never cheated which cannot be said for a lot of people ive met in college
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    Sharkfins McFuck... @sapphyrnidae95 Replying to @melodramateur Follow Honestly the saddest thing to me is the lack of excitement over learning. Like yeah everybody has subjects they don't care about or struggle with but for EVERYTHING? Maybe I'm just a dork but I love researching topics that interest me and showing off what I learned
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    charlie @lezzyknope . 1d Replying to @melodramateur seeing people in my comedy writing class use chatgbt to write jokes like send the flood
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    Richard H. Fay Artist/III... @RichardHFay Replying to @melodramateur Follow I did my research in a library and wrote my papers on a typewriter. I was damned good at writing papers.
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    guinn @sftms_g. 1d Replying to @melodramateur fun fact: my research methods professor (i am a senior at an accredited university), STRONGLY suggests us using chat gpt for her worke
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    • A@Annabelles_Spam 1d Replying to @melodramateur The only thing I use ChatGPT for is coming up with titles for my paper 271 145 ılı 28K ☐ ∞ jj @melodramateur • 1d oh agreed its pretty helpful for small creative stuff like that
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    doop@yo @doopayo . 1d Replying to @melodramateur Can't she get expelled if her school finds this? Q7 27 228 51.7K ☐ % jj @melodramateur · 1d i would assume if they did see it they would do an investigation
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    lils | pllos brainrot @lilslibray - 1d Replying to @melodramateur how did they even get there anyway you have to have a pretty decent gpa to get into any college 16 175 247 ılıı 89.9K jj @melodramateur . 1d ai was not as widely available when i was in hs (im a senior in college now so maybe it was for some new college students) but also i feel like its a lot easier to cheat in hs
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    marcy@egirldesire 8h Replying to @melodramateur i blame it on the public education system tbh. there is such a heavy focus on students going to college immediately after graduation as if there are not other options like trade school, "blue collar" work, cosmotology school, etc.
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    • panicpuppy @panic_puppy 1d Replying to @melodramateur Universities teach a lot of useless stuff. 99% of people will never use calculus but it's required in all undergrad sciences. If they taught us stuff we need to use there'd be a lot less cheating. Trade schools are much better. 14 277 115 ılı 28.6K L jj @melodramateur • 1d i mean while there are some weird requirements here and there for the most part i think there are a lot of necessary skills to be learned in classes not related to your s
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    sarah@biggestrepstan · 1d Replying to @melodramateur boo hoo it's a useful tool Q11 172 42 ili 31.1K ☐ ∞ jj @melodramateur . 1d. cheating is a useful tool?
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    Is it? if is missesmysteries Follow Ing Megabilen @missesmysteries Replying to @melodramateur What is quilbot? I couldn't imagine having Al write my papers, they don't even sound like me. The voice I hear in my head when I read Al is totally different
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    cole diamond @cole_diamond. 1d Replying to @melodramateur Imagine your surgeon used chatGPT to get thru med school, now you got a scalpel floating around in your body and two different sized
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    alex@barelyyalex • 1d Replying to @melodramateur I cheated off the person next to me and my phone under the table like all the good people that came before me
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    nina@brutalbina • 1d Replying to @melodramateur we used our brains... 8
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    Goof @goofxist. 1d College is way too expensive to waste by not learning anything
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    Borscht the T is silent @InternetHippo Follow One time in college I wrote a final paper and then my computer died so I had to rewrite it from scratch the night before it was due. To these kids I'm a medieval peasant or perhaps farm animal
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    joe bro 3 @jbromovies Follow Things are gonna get really funny in about 5-10 years
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    uma @umawrnkl · 20h im sorry i hate being mean but how are people so proud of being dumb? what do you mean you need chatgpt to write a uni essay for you? that's just insane, if i was a professor i would be failing everybody
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    Nazira Bashour @bashour_nazira • 17h What concerns me more than anything is these kids not understanding that writing is a SKILL and one that is very important to have in life regardless of college.
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