Rosuav
April 16, 2023, 9:52pm
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C.A.M. Gerlach:
On the other hand, on many more basic Python questions (more in scope for this forum), I did notice many instances where the other posters were trying to engage the user, typically a beginning learner and often working on an assignment, in a pedagogically motivated discourse to actually help them learn. However, before I even considered a LLM might be involved, I noticed the replies by this user were running somewhat contrary to that, directly giving the a bunch of code (that may or may not address the real problem) with relatively minimal explanation, that al least implicitly encouraged them to just copy/paste rather than actually learn something, like the other people were trying to each them. In fact, I was considering mentioning it privately to the user to consider in their approach to answering future questions, before I suspected an LLM.
Agreed. I wasn’t thinking LLM when I saw this thread but it definitely isn’t the sort of post that we want to be encouraging. We do NOT want people taught to copy and paste code, especially when that code has come from a language model with no concept of correctness.
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