I mean we once had a student argue that it should be allowed to send nuclear waste to "some African shit hole country" to get rid of it. An AI won't answer this appropriately because it isn't allowed to start an answer with "listen here, cuntface".

When I yell at my students, but I know ChatGPT would’ve responded with ”you’re right to push back…”

John Oliver has a great episode on ai chatbots, how they don’t push back because of customer service reasons and end up helping teens plan suicide

While the teacher sucks, the sycophantic AI is itself a problem…

One teaches boundaries about what is and isn't appropriate while the other emboldens stupidity.

IS THAT A CGI TEAR?!

A great first step to combating the tide of stupid should include being able to call out dumbass questions.

“The only stupid question is the one that doesn’t get asked”

(or the one asked to the wrong person, or the one where you don’t listen to the answer, or any question asked to an LLM)

Sure AI sucks, but that teacher really sucks too. Sometimes a bad teacher can be worse than no teacher.