AI Homework Helper: Welcome to Digital Detention
Listen, I just caught my neighbor’s kid using ChatGPT to write a poem about the futility of existence. Kid’s thirteen. When I was thirteen, the deepest thing I wrote was my name in the snow, if you catch my drift. Times change, I guess. Here I am, three fingers of bourbon in, trying to make sense of this brave new world where machines write our homework.
According to some fresh numbers from Pew Research (which I’m reading through whiskey-blurred vision), about 26% of teens are now using ChatGPT for their schoolwork. That’s doubled since their last count, which reminds me - I should probably double this drink.