One of my acquaintances told me that he uses AI to mass-produce college notes of subjects he himself doesn't know to capitalize on people who will buy them.

Unfortunately I've seen a lot of people are buying his notes. I think this is a terrible thing to do. It's not only immoral but you're making people study on potential AI slop which will compound over the years and that will result in a degradation of the humans' knowledge on the topic in my opinion.

Do not trust online college notes, especially if they're paywalled. There's infinite free knowledge online.

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[–] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Before AI you were best to go visit Wikipedia.

Today, anyone paying for this sort of thing is just a griftable fool that was going to lose their money anyways.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Ah yes, good old victim-blaming.

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago

    get notes from someone else defeats the purpose.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    ...making people study on potential AI slop which will compound over the years and that will result in a degradation of the humans’ knowledge on the topic

    Someone really needs to stop your friend before they destroy the sum total of human knowledge with their beer hustle.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    haha

    I clearly mean that the more people (both sellers and buyers) do this crap, the worse it becomes.

    I have a beer hustle and it doesn't revolve around scamming people.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago

    I clearly mean that the more people (both sellers and buyers) do this crap, the worse it becomes.

    Lazy people who want to avoid studying in college have been being taken advantage of since the beginning of academia. Adding AI doesn't change anything, humanity's knowledge has survived lazy students and fake notes it can survive fabricated notes.

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