on the other hand, it's something that will probably be a big factor too once I go back to my actual work ...
so I can't just avoid using it in my current place, but I feel awful every time I have to

I work in a university - I take care of our PhD students approaching submission; but another area of the office manages grants, research contracts and so on - big-money stuff. We had a meeting extolling the virtues of AI for that kind of work - parsing regulations documents, and putting together proposals and contracts of our own....

...it was a hybrid meeting, so most of us were Meets-ing since the room upstairs was full. And when it ended everyone just collectively took off their headphones and looked at each other like 😬😬😬

In my team, we are already having to head off students trying to get their doctorates using AI. We have software to help detect plagiarism but we ended up sending a thesis out for examination, only to have the external examiner (from another uni) contact us and say half the documents/authors the student referenced did not exist. They were AI generated.

..... no. just no!?
especially legal stuff is still so wonky and 60% of the results - no matter what - are still false
I get where AI is useful in jobs, like medicine, to detect tumors and stuff, but not to do the research for you ...!

oh yeah, I heard how AI just kind of makes up sources

Student failed and if they wanted to still try to get a PhD they can’t at my uni - the money they spent on their studies is basically down the drain, tens of thousands of pounds. And the work they DID do themselves is now invalidated for use at another institution 😬 they’d have to start from zero.

TL,DR, AI is a scourge and they’re even trying to get uni staff to use it!!!

ouffff ... I hate it so much, it should never have been made accessible to the general public and just stay in the very specific areas where it's not taking away jobs or human thinking!

^ THIS. I try to avoid it as much as I can these days. They just rolled out CoPilot on all of our computers and it's literally the first option when I right-click these days like, "oh, hey, lemme parse this document for you". I don't need it, but I also deal with examiners' personal and financial information that I can't really risk to AI :/

I also stumbled across an interesting study a while back that basically said that students' reading comprehension at university-level has severely declined. The study was conducted in the mid-2010s, so... AI cannot be improving this :/

nope, AI is actively taking away people's ability to think.
we got a research job today, and I would've gone the regular way of using Google and whatever research material I can find. two guys immediately said that we should simply use chatgpt and be done with the task (meant for three days) in three minutes

well, they tried, but still couldn't get a full list of what we were supposed to be looking for

I am so tempted to just do some of it by "hand", but it's supposed to be a team task ...

two guys immediately said that we should simply use chatgpt. [screams into a pillow]

yeah, if I had a pillow in that moment, I would've done that too

So, said Group Project ...
I am still new here, so the first two weeks I have fewer hours to work than the others and can leave between 12 and 1 PM, depending on the day.
So when we were assigned to that group project on Thursday around 12, it was clear that I would only be around till 1:30 LATEST

The boys started using AI for the project but didn't get far, and now I am back in the office, and nothing is done?
But we also didn't split the assignment, so I can't even do anything myself??

this sucks so hard, and the one who assigned us the task is my supervisor, so I don't want the first assignment he's giving me to be a failure??

But of course, not everyone is in the office today, and all of this just makes me angry