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On 4/27/2025 at 10:50 AM, texas08 said:

Had no idea this thread existed.

Some of these thread titles are dumb af.

I thought it was a thread dedicated to the old scat site.

So you’d say that the thread titles on this site are deteriorating and getting worse? I bet there’s a thread to discuss this phenomenon; if only the thread titles made any sense.

On 5/7/2025 at 10:18 AM, Brisketexan said:

My kids have both messed around with AI generated writing in both academic and work contexts.  Both of them are pretty dismissive, saying that it's fine for elementary stuff that requires no real thought (form-letter type writing), but for anything that requires any real analysis, 1) it's not that good, and 2) it is glaringly obvious that it's AI.

Which should probably be something at the top of every high school and college syllabus: if you try to use AI to do your work for you, know that 1) it's not that good (so, it would get a mediocre grade), and 2) it's generally obvious as hell that it's AI (meaning that you'll get a failing grade, because I'll spot it and give your paper an F).

College professor perspective: I’ve changed most of my writing assignments to prioritize thoughtful student engagement with the materials. AI really likes to tell you about things, but so far, doesn’t do a great job of engaging with things in a meaningful way. There’s a difference between a student thoughtfully considering and struggling with new concepts and a machine telling me about everything that’s ever been written on the subject. On the surface, the AI version looks smarter, but it demonstrates no real analysis or human thought. It’s just a catalogue of ideas.

Also, its tone sucks. I like to run important emails through AI just to make sure it hates my tone.

I’ve have learned a new appreciation and respect for students who are bad writers, since they are likely not cheating and failing honestly.

For this thread, the iPhone keyboard is getting worse every year. I have more and more typos and it sometimes randomly inserts several words in place of one or two letters.

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2 hours ago, Mole said:

For this thread, the iPhone keyboard is getting worse every year. I have more and more typos and it sometimes randomly inserts several words in place of one or two letters.

Yep. Half of my texts look like I learned to speak English a day ago. I’m not exactly sure why the predictive spell check either doesn’t do its job or makes really shitty assumptions

For instance, just in this message, I got: half my tests, speed cheek and shorty assumptions 

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Yeah, the autofill or predictive text on iPhones is absolute garbage compared to Android phones. Also, they make it almost impossible to go back and correct an inadvertent letter from a fat-thumbed typo, forcing you to delete the entire word rather than just fixing a small mistake within the word.

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3 hours ago, bolverk said:

Yeah, the autofill or predictive text on iPhones is absolute garbage compared to Android phones. Also, they make it almost impossible to go back and correct an inadvertent letter from a fat-thumbed typo, forcing you to delete the entire word rather than just fixing a small mistake within the word.

Fuck that, I jest let it go. 

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