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xocetaceans

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1. Your thoughts might be interesting and relevant, but writing with ChatGPT as an "aid" renders the entire set of
Mon Dec 25, 2023, 05:58 PM
Dec 2023

arguments (whatever they may be) at best uninteresting and at worst unchecked for accuracy and tangentially lifted via programmed mimicry. The whole body of work is simply not your thinking or or your essay, and its internal boundaries are far from clear: derived works cite sources via footnotes -- your text does not make any such citations. It's not plagiarism exactly, but it's not a human-generated text.

This may come across as unduly harsh, but what writer or reader really wants to be have one's thinking influenced by an algorithm's probabilistic arithmetic?

In this group's context, I thought that your post's title offered something potentially insightful or interesting to read. However, I only read as far as "...with the aid of ChatGPT...." It is just impossible to tell which thoughts are your thoughts and which phrases are merely the embodiment of statistical likelihoods.

That being said, Descartes certainly never offer the argument "I think. Therefore, I use ChatGPT."

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