I have noticed more and more posts on CC where people are literally using AI, and copying words directly from chat gpt or similar.
I am much more interested in hearing people’s thoughts, opinions, and insights. My guess is OPs feel the same way.
My question is… what’s the point?
I agree. However, some posters have, for years, merely Googled information and posted the results here instead of providing their original thoughts, firsthand knowledge, or insights.
I don’t like that either, but ChatGPT posts are just the new flavor of the same phenomenon.
and I thought I was in a community of geniuses…
Most people are using these chats do an extention of a search summary. Problem is and especially for college things it will cultivate old and new information then synthesis it and with wrong information.
I am lecturing on AI in the medical space. I have used it lately to make my slides. It would take me days to get it to look this good. Most AI is really “assisting “ with tasks. One thing the college kids need to learn is how to use it as such. I think they will be the generation of if you don’t use it, you will be replaced by those that do.
Have people generally been disclosing the source for posts of this type?
I hope that if posters are using AI to help someone find an answer, they would say so. But, on the other side of the coin, it is not uncommon for those new to the world of college admissions to forget to try googling their question first.
Also notice that if you ask google, AI sometimes sources its response from CC and other forums. What I find AI most useful for is quickly getting to a possible source, especially a specific page within a website. AI is too often wrong to rely on it without checking the source.
I have noticed this and the information that AI cites from these sources isn’t always accurate (because the information in the post is inaccurate)!!!
Bingo
A few years ago I asked AI to write a college essay giving detail information (prompt), I tried it again a few months ago. Slightly better.
There are sources for AI that will actually give you the source. In medicine it’s Open Evidence. I am sure there are others more granular to use for college research things. Or someone here can make one and make a “billion “dollars 
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if i used AI, I would. I think I did once or twice actually. Was that a joke? No, they have not been.
Not at all. I’ve seen people post artificially generated information and writing who have disclosed AI as the source. It seems your topic here, then, regards posts that have been written by AI without disclosure.
Yes and thanks for clarifying.
I am less concerned about the question of ethics (but if others are, lets discuss it), and more concerned with the overall value they offer… and even whether AI copiers receive gratification from their own posts.
There are many benefits of AI and many legitimate uses for it, but I didn’t interpret the OP as questioning those benefits. Rather, I understood the question to be about the utility of using AI to look up information to post here on CC, instead of sharing one’s own knowledge, experiences, and opinions.
For students whose families or experienced counselors have familiarized them with the range of colleges available, such informal input can be very valuable. However, for less advantaged students, bringing attention to reliable sources can help to level the information field, particularly with respect to creating a list of colleges to be researched further. In any case, a group of contributors to CC topics can blend these approaches, as can individual posters. Moreover, anyone can read past posts, or posters, that they don’t find of interest – I certainly do. Nonetheless, the posting of undisclosed (or disclosed) AI material seems disorienting in a novel way.
maybe people who are posting with AI can put things in their own words… or might that take too much time?
This is an interesting comment. What are you suggesting? To be clear, why would I, in particular, have any special insight into this?
The point of this thread is not to call out AI posters. That would not be appropriate IMO.
When my stepmom passed away last year, a friend sent an email to express her sympathy. It was a very short email, maybe four sentences. One sentence read, “She is at peaches now.”
She then emailed me back to apologize, saying she had used AI to create the message.
My opinion of AI is very low, to say the least, but I understand that people use it all the time for all kinds of reasons. I honestly don’t see a problem. It’s not like they are getting a grade here on CC. I personally am very turned off by posts that use too much AI and I generally ignore them, but it’s probably better than text-speak. At least we can understand it.
That’s fine. By why did you quote me back? I’m curious more than anything else.
because you seem to have opinions and insights on the subject based upon your posts.