Plagiarism & ChatGPT: Is Cheating with AI the New Normal?

[Hornbein]

I can do basic math in my head. I feel this gives me advantage over people who rely on calculators. I can often sense when something has gone wrong with numbers.

 

[gmax137]

I can often sense when something has gone wrong with numbers.

Me too. Decades in nuclear power, "verifying" calcs done by others. First pass: does this even make sense? Second pass: are the inputs correct? Third pass: check the arithmetic line-by-line. Goal: do pass three one time only.

 

[Hornbein]

Me too. Decades in nuclear power, "verifying" calcs done by others. First pass: does this even make sense? Second pass: are the inputs correct? Third pass: check the arithmetic line-by-line. Goal: do pass three one time only.

Sometimes I am shocked by basic math errors in the New York Times, The Economist, and even from the World Bank. I suspect that the great majority of Congressmen are innumerate.

 

[Vanadium 50]

People don't cancel their subscriptions to the NYT because the math is wrong. People do cancel their subscriptions to the NYT because they "platform" a senator they don't agree with on their Op-Ed pages. Which do you think the editors will focus on more?

 

[gmax137]

"Editors" are the ones that are charged with correcting the reporter's grammar. They should also catch stupid mistakes. Or at least, assign fact checkers.

If I see/hear/read a news story with grammar or arithmetic errors, I have to question "what else did they get wrong?"