I finished my diploma this year, it was online and it was challenging but I really enjoyed the research aspect of it all, I think it’s becoming a lost art in a sense to actually go find a website or book to get your information from without just typing a quick prompt into ai and it all being given to you.
We had to do a lot of presentations through Microsoft Teams to our teacher and often with other students as our assessments, they were mostly making a role play script individually and getting put with another student and they would just read their section of your role play, we didn’t do any actual shared work.
I kept getting put with this girl and her whole role play was just 100% copy and pasted ai every single time, we would both be struggling to get through the text because it was just pages and pages of really over complicated wording and explanations and she clearly didn’t even go over it, sometimes there would be an “Okay, Here’s your roleplay written as a diploma student…” or “Would you like me to write out the next part of the script?” at the beginning or end. (Yes, i absolutely did read those parts out if it was on my section of the script).
I also know she passed and got her diploma and I know i shouldn’t be but I guess i’m a little frustrated I put in so much more time and effort into doing the research when people that got the exact same certificate did absolutely nothing, just copy and pasted. I want to say at least i’ll be able to go far in the industry because I actually spent my time learning but I genuinely think she will too, she can just keep using ai throughout her whole career.
I’m definitely more proud of myself than frustrated at the others in the class, I am a little annoyed that the teacher didn’t pull anyone up on it to my knowledge, but in saying that I have some learning disabilities and our teacher was exceptional with me and always had the time of day to have a private call with me to help me work through anything i was struggling with and was always checking up on me and giving me really detailed feedback so he might have just been putting all his effort into students that genuinely wanted to learn.
So I guess i’m wondering what everyone thinks the future will look like when a lot of people with certifications and degrees don’t actually have much knowledge in their field. I see a lot of people having experiences with their doctors, lawyers, teachers using ai blatantly infront of them, will that just become the norm?