Comment by latexr
7 months ago
> Students are often fully aware their use of ChatGPT is a bad idea.
Often and fully aware? I sincerely doubt it. I’d bet it’s only a tiny minority of students who use ChatGPT who think it’s a bad idea.
Unlike the gambling addict, they can’t feel the immediate repercussions of their actions. Those will only be available in hindsight, long after they can correct.
People have already done multiple polls and studies on student use of ChatGPT, so it's trivial to check. Yes, they're aware.
If you ask someone if they are aware of something, then of course they’ll think about it even if they hadn’t before.
You can’t test this type of awareness with polls. Doing the study itself skews the results.
You're now making a second set of incorrect assumptions. Go actually check. People have asked open ended questions, and gotten the correct answer from students unprompted.