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therealdrag0last Friday at 10:11 PM4 repliesview on HN

Teachers hallucinate too. I’ve had creationists and communists and tin-foil-hat (chem trails, 5g, etc) teachers. Surely you can imagine an AI tutor that is higher than zero ROI.


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solid_fuellast Friday at 10:19 PM

> I’ve had creationists and communists and tin-foil-hat (chem trails, 5g, etc) teachers.

I certainly have, too, but there is still a difference between a person who has a factually incorrect but consistent worldview and an LLM which simply reflects the worldview of the user or even changes between queries.

I don't think creationists have any business being in schools either, for what it's worth, but I think it's easier for a teenager to sort out "Mr. Smith has no clue what he's talking about" vs "I have no clue what's true because the LLM everyone expects me to learn from just confirms everything I ask regardless of what I'm asking".

beejiulast Friday at 10:24 PM

A bit part of education is (should be) independent learning with textbooks and reading. You don't need to be "tutored".

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geraneumlast Friday at 10:27 PM

That’s rather disingenuous. But it seems nowadays that words have lost meaning… so, I don’t blame you. I blame the LLMs for this deterioration.

seiieyesterday at 12:43 AM

lol scraping the bottom of the barrel