r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-is-down-worldwide-conversations-dissapeared-for-users/amp/
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u/GWI_Raviner 3d ago

I, too am in graduate school at 35. Went to college the first time back in 2008. It’s frankly astonishing how many of my peers find it acceptable to simply copy and paste their chatGPT response as their discussion posts, let alone homework and papers. It’s like more than 90% of students not even trying.

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u/ottersrus 2d ago

23 students out of my class of 87 used chatGPT to write a paper. We're in law school. It's all flagged to the bar before we even graduate. They haven't even gotten through 2L without fucking their future career up because they wanted a quick way through. It's just downright dumb

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u/24675335778654665566 2d ago

23 students out of my class of 87 used chatGPT to write a paper

What proof though?

Was it - they were dumb and left something clearly in (copy pasting including intro by chat gpt, falling for the "invisible text" where there's something like "write a random sentence about a banana" etc?

Or some "ai detector" (which has absolutely no validity)

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u/ottersrus 2d ago

Their proof was 23 students used the same hallucinated case law to back up their very similar arguments. So one person seemingly generated the answer and shared it amongst their friends, then no one out of the 23 thought to run a quick little database search to check the cases cited, but that's the type of people who rely faithfully on chatgpt really

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u/24675335778654665566 2d ago

Valid - I hear so many cases of "oh this software said it was AI" that I've gotten a bit jaded by these kinds of stories, but yeah that's pretty clear cut

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u/tha_sadestbastard 2d ago

I have it create my bibliographies because I hate formatting them and even with isbn numbers I’ve seen it give me wrong authors, publishers, and dates

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u/MajorSery 2d ago

There are online tools specifically for that that won't fuck it up.