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Well if you were a typical highly engaged TikTok or YouTube user, you are probably 13-18 years old. The kind of cheating in school that ChatGPT enabled is revolutionary. That is going to go viral. It's not a marketing push. After years of essentially learning nothing during COVID lockdowns, can you understand how transformative that is? It's like 1,000x more exciting than pirating textbooks, stealing Mazdas, or whatever culturally self-destructive life hacks were being peddled by freakshow brocolliheads and Kim Kardashian-alikes on the platform.

It's ironic because the OpenAI creators really loved school and excelled academically. Nobody cares that ChatGPT destroyed advertising copywriting. But whatever little hope remained for the average high schooler post-lockdowns, it was destroyed by instant homework cheating via ChatGPT. So much for safety.




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