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Obvious advice for students: Human brains are neural networks- they have to be trained. If you have the already trained artificial neural network do all the work, it means your own neural network remains untrained.

You are tremendously better off getting a bad grade doing your own work than getting a good one using ChatGPT.

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Many students who use AI do so not because they value their own learning, but because they prioritize the grades they earn in class.

I work in a high school, so I've seen this first hand. To be fair, this mindset isn’t entirely their fault. Their parents, their future universities, and society as a whole place a high value on getting top grades, too..

In a system where college admissions are highly competitive, and where cheating with AI offers a high reward and low risk, even students who genuinely care about their learning will feel pressured to follow suit. Just to remain in the game.

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