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I would think teaching students critical thinking and good research and citation practices would be more valuable, no?

Regarding cheating, I often review CVs and written tests for software developer roles and I often see ChatGPT being used to pimp CVs and rewrite fragments of pages from the internet. They are often wrong or re-written in a way that makes it easy to reverse engineer the source.

>>surfin+(OP)
> would think teaching students critical thinking and good research and citation practices would be more valuable, no?

Yes, but for many history is a very dry subject and thus hard. This creative solution can help students retain information and better understand the subject.

>>surfin+(OP)
I feel like I can reasonably reliably tell when something is written by ChatGPT, but my accuracy drops to nearly zero when looking at something written by ChatGPT Plus. It's output can be far better than what a typical person will write on their CV, and it can also reliably write "in the style of" someone to add in just the right amount of unusual grammar to emulate a non-english writer for example if needed.

>>surfin+(OP)
I think that's what the author is trying to accomplish, creating an engaging way to practice critical thinking and good research. Giving a student a paper and telling them to find the errors isn't terribly exciting. I think giving them a chance to create the story themselves helps with engagement. It's almost like a game, create a story and find the inaccuracies. To do that you're going to have to "see" the issues your story might have and do research to correct them.

>>surfin+(OP)
that is precisely why this isn’t a novel use case as it was so declared in the piece. the “hallucinations,” put crudely, are of course one of the high value outputs of the models.

the kids with critical thinking skills are already using llms in all sorts of creative ways to boost their education and output. to learn and grow, faster than a textbook allows.

the ones without will use them exclusively to get rid of toil, real or perceived.