April 22, 2024 - Monday
Finally finally was able to go visit the nearby botanical garden ✨I’ve been trying to go since the first day of spring. It was a bit chilly but still so absolutely beautiful! Being in nature is so healing for me I lowkey wish I was in a ghibli film and got sent away to the countryside to improve my health lol. But the city has me in a chokehold only because of convenience but convenience breeds anxiety I'm telling you.
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You know what
Screw it
If this post gets 5k[edit, the new goal is 10k omg] notes before the end of January, I'll come out to my parents, get my hair cut, and ask parents for the things I need to pass as a boy.
Have fun
[Goal reached]
Thank you to everyone who took their time to reblog, like, and reply. I'm going to keep this promise and come out to my parents soon. I love you all, stay safe <3
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You know what? Fuck it.
Mar 13 -> The amount of notes that this post gets by the end of April is the amount of words I'll write for one of my books.
May 1 -> AND TIME!! Thank you all so much for participating! The amount of words I got are...
WOW!! That's a lot! I've never written anything with that many words...
BUT! I will stay true to my word and try my best to accommodate every word! Thank you all again!
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An important message to college students: Why you shouldn't use ChatGPT or other "AI" to write papers.
Here's the thing: Unlike plagiarism, where I can always find the exact source a student used, it's difficult to impossible to prove that a student used ChatGPT to write their paper. Which means I have to grade it as though the student wrote it.
So if your professor can't prove it, why shouldn't you use it?
Well, first off, it doesn't write good papers. Grading them as if the student did write it themself, so far I've given GPT-enhanced papers two Ds and an F.
If you're unlucky enough to get a professor like me, they've designed their assignments to be hard to plagiarize, which means they'll also be hard to get "AI" to write well. To get a good paper out of ChatGPT for my class, you'd have to write a prompt that's so long, with so many specifics, that you might as well just write the paper yourself.
ChatGPT absolutely loves to make broad, vague statements about, for example, what topics a book covers. Sadly for my students, I ask for specific examples from the book, and it's not so good at that. Nor is it good at explaining exactly why that example is connected to a concept from class. To get a good paper out of it, you'd have to have already identified the concepts you want to discuss and the relevant examples, and quite honestly if you can do that it'll be easier to write your own paper than to coax ChatGPT to write a decent paper.
The second reason you shouldn't do it?
IT WILL PUT YOUR PROFESSOR IN A REALLY FUCKING BAD MOOD. WHEN I'M IN A BAD MOOD I AM NOT GOING TO BE GENEROUS WITH MY GRADING.
I can't prove it's written by ChatGPT, but I can tell. It does not write like a college freshman. It writes like a professional copywriter churning out articles for a content farm. And much like a large language model, the more papers written by it I see, the better I get at identifying it, because it turns out there are certain phrases it really, really likes using.
Once I think you're using ChatGPT I will be extremely annoyed while I grade your paper. I will grade it as if you wrote it, but I will not grade it generously. I will not give you the benefit of the doubt if I'm not sure whether you understood a concept or not. I will not squint and try to understand how you thought two things are connected that I do not think are connected.
Moreover, I will continue to not feel generous when calculating your final grade for the class. Usually, if someone has been coming to class regularly all semester, turned things in on time, etc, then I might be willing to give them a tiny bit of help - round a 79.3% up to a B-, say. If you get a 79.3%, you will get your C+ and you'd better be thankful for it, because if you try to complain or claim you weren't using AI, I'll be letting the college's academic disciplinary committee decide what grade you should get.
Eventually my school will probably write actual guidelines for me to follow when I suspect use of AI, but for now, it's the wild west and it is in your best interest to avoid a showdown with me.
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I can't believe I'm also doing this
But if this post gets 5K notes (impossible) by April (still impossible) then I'll start a gimmick blog chosen by a poll
Edit: goal changed to 1k because I don't think it's possible to reach 5k. If I do though, I'll add more options to the poll.
Edit 2: YOU MADLADS DID IT! I won't start the poll until April anyways, in case you somehow get to 5k.
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