alt Hacker News> Most Students Don’t Want to Use Chatbots
I think this is changing rapidly.
I'm a university professor, and the amount of students who seem to be in need of LLM as a crutch is growing really exponentially.
We are still in a place where the oldest students did their first year completely without LLMs. But younger students have used LLMs throughout their studies, and I fear that in the future, we will see full generations of students completely incapable of working without LLM assistance.
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Google destroyed search and replaced it with that dippy LLM box.
Are you sure student desire is the driving force here?
It will be very interesting to see what will happen when LLMs start charging users for their true cost. With many people priced out how would they cope?
Please, you don’t need to counter-narrative everything. Maybe talk about what the professor did here and why students didn’t trust the output in an exam context in this particular subject.
Reading the article, it seemed to me that both the professor and the students were interested in the material being taught and therefore actively wanted to learn it, so using an LLM isn't the best tactic.
My feeling is that for many/most students, getting a great understanding of the course material isn't the primary goal, passing the course so they can get a good job is the primary goal. For this group using LLMs makes a lot of sense.
I know when I was a student doing a course I was not particularly interested in because my parents/school told me that was the right thing to do, if LLMs had been around, I absolutely would have used them :).