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Started by Thursday's_Child, September 26, 2019, 08:37:56 AM

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marshwiggle

Quote from: fleabite on December 03, 2023, 07:02:41 PM
Quote from: evil_physics_witchcraft on December 03, 2023, 06:23:58 PMHere's another one:

"The terrain of Venus is relatively smooth with two continent like fetuses named Ishtar and Aphrodite."

This is superb! You made my day.

Sounds like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
It takes so little to be above average.

onehappyunicorn

I usually teach studio art classes but we needed someone to teach an art appreciation class last minute this semester and I got volunteered. It's been a while since I've had to grade student papers and while I'm ready to start drinking I have a few gems.

From two separate papers about The Persistence of Memory:

"Dali often used ants in his paintings to represent death and decay that he, himself symbolizes."

"This painting was not up for commission, which hints that Dalí was a surrealist."

I liked this one about another artist:
"The intense intensity radiating from the artwork established a profound and automatic connection..."
I would be disappointed to have apathetic intensity radiating for sure...

apl68

Quote from: onehappyunicorn on December 11, 2023, 03:13:41 PMI usually teach studio art classes but we needed someone to teach an art appreciation class last minute this semester and I got volunteered. It's been a while since I've had to grade student papers and while I'm ready to start drinking I have a few gems.

From two separate papers about The Persistence of Memory:

"Dali often used ants in his paintings to represent death and decay that he, himself symbolizes."

"This painting was not up for commission, which hints that Dalí was a surrealist."

I liked this one about another artist:
"The intense intensity radiating from the artwork established a profound and automatic connection..."
I would be disappointed to have apathetic intensity radiating for sure...


I can remember sentences like these from my TA days.  And in those days students didn't need online bots to generate writing like that for them!

"Intense intensity radiating" was indeed repetitious and redundant.  If the intensity is "radiating" then it's obviously intense, since apathetic intensity almost never has what it takes to radiate.
For our light affliction, which is only for a moment, works for us a far greater and eternal weight of glory.  We look not at the things we can see, but at those we can't.  For the things we can see are temporary, but those we can't see are eternal.

Liquidambar

Stu was explaining the reason why a fairly esoteric mathematical statement couldn't be true.  (Actually it was true, but that's beside the point.)

"This world wouldn't exist, humans wouldn't exist, and food wouldn't exist for that matter."
Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ~ Dirk Gently

apl68

Quote from: Liquidambar on April 14, 2024, 10:09:25 PMStu was explaining the reason why a fairly esoteric mathematical statement couldn't be true.  (Actually it was true, but that's beside the point.)

"This world wouldn't exist, humans wouldn't exist, and food wouldn't exist for that matter."

In that case, I'm glad that the student was mistaken.  I'd hate it if food didn't exist, especially if I wasn't there to eat it.
For our light affliction, which is only for a moment, works for us a far greater and eternal weight of glory.  We look not at the things we can see, but at those we can't.  For the things we can see are temporary, but those we can't see are eternal.

MarathonRunner

This is giving me strong AI vibes, but the student could just be very verbose and overuse what they perceive to be "fancy" language:

QuoteRegistering in "Baskets and the human body" was motivated by various ideas and curiosities surrounding the human body as a system. I hope to accumulate such knowledge. I believe that by accumulating this knowledge through course concepts, group work, and assignments, I will be able to better resonate with clients who use baskets in my future workplace dynamic.

At least they are now on my radar to carefully check future assignments.



marshwiggle

Quote from: MarathonRunner on September 12, 2024, 08:46:06 AMThis is giving me strong AI vibes, but the student could just be very verbose and overuse what they perceive to be "fancy" language:

QuoteRegistering in "Baskets and the human body" was motivated by various ideas and curiosities surrounding the human body as a system. I hope to accumulate such knowledge. I believe that by accumulating this knowledge through course concepts, group work, and assignments, I will be able to better resonate with clients who use baskets in my future workplace dynamic.

At least they are now on my radar to carefully check future assignments.




If that's AI, it's a very poor AI, spouting "biz-speak" rather than actual meaningful statements.
It takes so little to be above average.

the_geneticist

Quote from: MarathonRunner on September 12, 2024, 08:46:06 AMThis is giving me strong AI vibes, but the student could just be very verbose and overuse what they perceive to be "fancy" language:

QuoteRegistering in "Baskets and the human body" was motivated by various ideas and curiosities surrounding the human body as a system. I hope to accumulate such knowledge. I believe that by accumulating this knowledge through course concepts, group work, and assignments, I will be able to better resonate with clients who use baskets in my future workplace dynamic.

At least they are now on my radar to carefully check future assignments.




Smells like AI to me with a generous dash of business school.

RatGuy

Quote from: the_geneticist on September 12, 2024, 09:43:58 AM
Quote from: MarathonRunner on September 12, 2024, 08:46:06 AMThis is giving me strong AI vibes, but the student could just be very verbose and overuse what they perceive to be "fancy" language:

QuoteRegistering in "Baskets and the human body" was motivated by various ideas and curiosities surrounding the human body as a system. I hope to accumulate such knowledge. I believe that by accumulating this knowledge through course concepts, group work, and assignments, I will be able to better resonate with clients who use baskets in my future workplace dynamic.

At least they are now on my radar to carefully check future assignments.




Smells like AI to me with a generous dash of business school.

This doesn't set off my AI-dar. Instead, I'd assume, if anything, the student either used the thesaurus function or used one of those online paraphrasers. I guess the latter is a type of AI but the quotes passage doesn't feel much like ChatGPT to me

Myword

Quote from: apl68 on December 12, 2023, 07:18:42 AM
Quote from: onehappyunicorn on December 11, 2023, 03:13:41 PMI usually teach studio art classes but we needed someone to teach an art appreciation class last minute this semester and I got volunteered. It's been a while since I've had to grade student papers and while I'm ready to start drinking I have a few gems.

From two separate papers about The Persistence of Memory:

"Dali often used ants in his paintings to represent death and decay that he, himself symbolizes."

"This painting was not up for commission, which hints that Dalí was a surrealist."

I liked this one about another artist:
"The intense intensity radiating from the artwork established a profound and automatic connection..."
I would be disappointed to have apathetic intensity radiating for sure...


I can remember sentences like these from my TA days.  And in those days students didn't need online bots to generate writing like that for them!

"Intense intensity radiating" was indeed repetitious and redundant.  If the intensity is "radiating" then it's obviously intense, since apathetic intensity almost never has what it takes to radiate.
Quote from: onehappyunicorn on December 11, 2023, 03:13:41 PMI usually teach studio art classes but we needed someone to teach an art appreciation class last minute this semester and I got volunteered. It's been a while since I've had to grade student papers and while I'm ready to start drinking I have a few gems.

From two separate papers about The Persistence of Memory:

"Dali often used ants in his paintings to represent death and decay that he, himself symbolizes."

"This painting was not up for commission, which hints that Dalí was a surrealist."

I liked this one about another artist:
"The intense intensity radiating from the artwork established a profound and automatic connection..."
I would be disappointed to have apathetic intensity radiating for sure...

Dali said in interview on Dick Cavett show not to look for meanings in his work because there are none. He was clear not joking