Or their insurers.

Will be funny cruise ships stop coming, because their insurers don't think they can be rescued if they run into trouble.

Oh, cool right!

I went there about 6 or 7 years ago and saw them then. So cool.

Yes, working in a university, I have realised that some notionally well educated and intelligent people believe some absolutely moronic things.

I feel this kind of exercise will instead show them that it *will* create a passing essay, with very little effort. Not a great one, but one that will pass.

Especially, if they lightly edit it for any obvious errors.

While it is clearly upsetting for the family, this is not unusual. Police do often say whom they "believe" a body to be, when they themselves have identified it, prior to formal identification by the family.

When the police don't know whom a body is, they do say it is an "unidentified body".

Yes. Although, I struggle to think of meaningful ways to change assignments.

I have changed the way I assess. Five years ago, a superficially well written assignment, was a good shortcut to a high(ish) grade. A poorly written assignment, a good shortcut to a low grade. Nowdays, this does not work.

But there isn't much to be learnt from critiquing chatGPT, except that chatGPT is often wrong.

The mistakes it makes are not very interesting or coherent, because they are not based on misconceptions. ChatGPT's mistakes (and not mistakes) are not based on concepts at all; by definition.

Sure. But I am teaching engineering thermodynamics.

I get that the students will recognise there are limits to chatGPT.

But I still think many will also learn the lesson that a chatGPT written assignment will often get a passing grade.

I don't really see it. Students aren't using ChatGPT because they think it is reliable or correct.

They are using it because it is quick and easier than thinking. And they gamble (often correctly) that it will get a passing grade (especially if they do some light editing).

I've thought about this too, but it feels like a gimmick assignment that only really works once; this can't be *every* assignment.

Also, even if the students supposedly realise that they should not rely on chatGPT, a large minority will turn around and do just that at the next opportunity.

Yes.

The Butlerian Jihad is as much against the creators of AI as it is against AI.

Yes. I am so fucking mad that turning off their update disables all the inbox rules.

Yes. I think there is lens distortion at the periphery.

Everyone's feet, and the floor tiles look distorted.

His just look extra-distorted, because they are extra-demented shoes to be wearing in the first place.

As long as it isn't a blinding one.

I think that reading every cyberpunk story I could get my hands on in the 90s has made me simultaneously very prepared for this time in history and also inexpressibly morbid about it.

I don't want him to be Minister of Men's Health either!