Posted on 08/09/2025 2:16:42 AM PDT by Openurmind
In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a household name, but recent data reveals a telling pattern in its usage that underscores the tool’s controversial role in education. According to a report from Futurism, published on August 8, 2025, OpenAI’s platform experiences significant drops in activity during weekends and summer months—periods when schools are typically out of session. This fluctuation suggests that a substantial portion of ChatGPT’s traffic may stem from students using it for homework assistance, or more pointedly, cheating.
The numbers are stark: usage plummets by as much as 20-30% on non-school days, aligning closely with academic calendars. Industry analysts interpret this as evidence that ChatGPT isn’t just a productivity booster but a crutch for academic dishonesty. Educators have long voiced concerns, and this data provides empirical backing, highlighting how AI tools are infiltrating classrooms in ways that challenge traditional notions of learning and integrity.
And if the students are not using ChatGBT to do their coursework, they call on Mom to help them when they apply for and get a job.
https://www.resumetemplates.com/nearly-half-of-gen-zers-have-mom-regularly-talk-to-their-boss/
Have you ever asked it to rewrite something at a 3rd grade level? It does a very good job.
The default writes better than I, or most people.
I do the same and use several AI detectors.
Even though I have a policy of no AI papers, students still try and then deny when i catch them.
When you teach a writing class and have students turn in legitimate outlines, rough drafts, and final papers, and then have the AI submissions from students who put in a subject and told the program to write a research paper, advertisement, journalistic article, or fictional story, you would come to different conclusions.
I refuse to grade students with high scores based on technically submitting an assignment if it was AI generated. I have plenty of students who do the work legitimately and deserve to have an honest grade.
While I certainly agree, I would point out that the Americans with Disabilities Act makes that its own problem what with mandatory accommodations.
To be (politely) blunt.
Your daughter failed her certification competency exam.
YOU did the research, YOU developed a recovery plan, YOU “wrote” the AI-assisted recovery plan, YOU analyzed the result and selected the AI-written recovery plan.
What exactly did your daughter do to learn the basics of her certification- other than regurgitate what your AI put in the recovery plan? Does she know her basics and core competency? Is she really able to do her job? Or just pass the state’s exam?
Tough questions.
That is funny, I had no clue...
I’m going to confess that mentioning my Father’s well respected name helped me get my first job working for someone other him. But I was still a freshman in highschool and wanted extra summer work.
Good for you. Based on personal effort and merit is how it should be.
I’m not in school, but I did a test for my own curiosity. All the quotes it came up with were made up.
“There is no other practical logical purpose for this tool.”
I briefly worked for a guy who owned a networking business in 1995, and he did not have a website. I told him he needed to get online, and he said he thought the Internet was “a fad”.
There is no other reason for your statement than pure ignorance. It’s not a matter of whether Ai will have practical uses. It already does.
Lots of people are getting rich by using Ai to do their work more efficiently. When you can do 10x, 100x, or more work, you can get paid significantly more.
Core business functions are already being done entirely by Ai for many companies, and it only continues to gain more capabilities.
Now is the time for individuals to learn to exploit Ai for their own benefit and build something useful before it requires licenses, regulatory compliance, and massive capital investments.
“ Even though I have a policy of no AI papers, students still try and then deny when i catch them.”
They tend to leave the dashes in. That’s the first indicator.
Bring back the Blue Books.
GMTA!
Before that it was Google Searches and cutting and pasting.
Tell me which one of these uses is not for laziness and/or greed?
There is a smart approach to using AI, that I use. I go to Claude Desktop (I prefer that over Chat GPT), and state an assertion, and then I ask it to “Change My Mind”, where it will then go and try to counter my assertion, I also make it clear I want citations to back up what it’s saying. You can actually have an interesting conversation to bounce ideas off of it, but it’s not just being spoonfed things that I just regurgitate.
Well said.
I am a much better developer because of the AI tools I use.
I’ve been using Claude Code, mostly for generating boiler-plate code.
I mean, here’s the DDL of a database, go build my Data Access Layer. *Click* Done!
I was one of the early web page adopters—learned html and created my own page in the 90s.
At that point I was so proud of myself I told my employer I wanted to create a web page so they could use it to advertise and explain their product to the public in greater depth.
They laughed at me.
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