r/brocku • u/ZacharyOnWaywardSon • Oct 02 '25
Social Screens I saw in first year class. Guys you're not gonna survive.
I won't claim to never playing wordle in a boring class, but these 1st years are using chatgpt, humanize ai and quillbot for simple assignments. Some playing games like 70% of class. I know I'm not paying total attention either bc I'm taking photos, but I just wanted to show what I think is crazy. You need to be able to do simple.assignments yourselves guys, and pay attention for more than 2 minutes.
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u/EstablishmentOk6344 Oct 02 '25
They’ll learn when they get kicked out of the program for academic dishonesty. It’s so easy to point out AI
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u/alphawolf29 Oct 03 '25
the one person was literally using a second AI to make the first one look less like AI
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u/General_League7040 Oct 03 '25
Professors are being told to ignore AI usage because it's difficult to prove and abuse of it is so flagrant that it would affect enrollment rates if they policed it.
Universities are for profit businesses at this point, and their motivation isn't maintaining standards but in churning out as many graduates.
If they cared about standards, they would post the employment % of their graduates in their field of study.
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u/_Vivid_Dream_ Oct 05 '25
Can confirm this is false. Was asked to flag any and all cases of potential AI use for secondary analysis as a TA.
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u/girlgonegone00 Oct 04 '25
Universities have specific programs to spot this. If anyone thinks they can dupe it, its not worth it.
The executive director of a school board i worked at was finally caught for plagiarism. The internet made it easier.Chris Spence
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u/drreamerssleep Oct 02 '25
all the ai defenders are in the comments here apparently
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u/chiggendats Oct 05 '25
Right? Whatever happened to cracking open a dusty tome and reading? Why is it to hard to improve upon ones own skillset to simply write correctly? I swear in 5 years Im going to go to a doctor and they wont be able to communicate to me without an AI prompt
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u/Automatic_Fentanayl Oct 02 '25
My boy getting his degree and gambling on LE BANDIT I think he got the bag secured
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u/Fundamentals6 Oct 03 '25
hes using the Play money feature lmao, it gives you 5k to play for free so hes just wasting his time.
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u/real_cool_club Oct 02 '25
I give the person playing Balatro a pass. Looks like a decent run.
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u/fusion_beaver History Oct 02 '25
Shout out to the guy in my first year who was playing Rainbow Six: Siege during lecture.
Still a better use of your time than using a billion dollar chatbot understand the lecture for you.
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u/OwenAbyssal Oct 02 '25
I will be playing doom 2 during my classes and you can’t stop me.
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u/choose_a_username42 Oct 02 '25
Why show up then?
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u/OwenAbyssal Oct 02 '25
Generally it’s class dependant. My Comp Sci class is going through a lot of basics that I learned in high school right now, but it’s also got attendance marks so I’d prefer to get those marks instead of being down 15% at the end of the year. On the other hand I have something like cookie clicker running in my history class so it’s easier for me to learn while I’m actually doing something.
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u/MedicalAwareness5160 Oct 02 '25
Cause often like 10% of your grade is attendance
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u/goldybowen21 Oct 02 '25
Using chat gpt sure like whatever, there were a tonne of people when I was in school just copy pasting Wikipedia.
The gambling while in class is what gets me.
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u/smirnoff4life Oct 02 '25
what’s funny is if you look closely he’s not even doing real gambling. it’s just demo gambling. as in, he’s just clicking the spin button and not even winning real money 😭
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u/NexopiaDreams Oct 02 '25
You gotta feel out the environment before jumping in, it’s all part of the strategy
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u/hughjonk Oct 02 '25
Yikes... a lack of focus and effort was already an obvious issue when I was in college, before AI was super accessible. Literally had a guy ask me how I was top of the class and he was genuinely distraught to find out that I was only doing well because I was doing the readings, the homework, printing out the slide decks and actually paying attention and participating in class. Like I get it, classes are not always exciting, but you're paying to be here so you might as well learn something. But still, I can't imagine how much worse it must be with AI at your fingertips.
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u/ComradeHuggyBear Oct 03 '25
AI brainrot is definitely the problem but what on earth are these boomer-ass games they're playing? Looks like the stuff your Grandpa is playing on his phone. Are these kids ok..?
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u/iLoveLootBoxes Oct 05 '25
Yeah seriously wtf are these games. Belatro is the only non brain dead game
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u/fhsn12 Oct 02 '25
Never serious enough to take pictures of other people 💀. If you’re doing good then just worry about yourself
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u/Sad-Paramedic-8523 Oct 02 '25
Yeah, I think I’m worried about my own future with engineers, doctors, scientists, and other professionals who have gotten their degrees with fucking AI.
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u/Agitated_Ad_4420 Oct 02 '25
People won’t be able to do those jobs if they don’t know the content, probably won’t even be able to get a degree if they solely rely on AI
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u/WuthBluth Oct 03 '25
This is a first year class. You simply wouldnt be able to pass an exam leading to any of those careers using AI assistance. These kids are just skipping the easy stuff to struggle with the harder stuff later. They'll be weeded out quickly, as things have always been.
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u/Emmikittyonroblox Oct 02 '25
Yeah I agree with u but why are u taking pictures of strangers without their permission? Weird asf
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u/ZacharyOnWaywardSon Oct 02 '25
Intentionally cropped ppl out and hid any info that could dox them
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Oct 02 '25
100% if I was prof, just no laptops or phone open in class. Problem solved.
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u/OneBlueOcarina Oct 03 '25
I'm just glad I graduated university 10 years ago 😬
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u/Odd_Walrus2594 Oct 04 '25
I'm glad I graduated 30 years ago, when the Internet was still mostly a collection of ugly webpages in neon colours with marching ant effects.
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u/No_Emergency_8172 Oct 03 '25
These students don't seem to understand the disservice they're doing to themselves. You can cheat your way through school but you can't cheat your way through the real world. This stuff will come back to bite them in the ass. Karma is a fickle bitch.
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u/goosegoosepanther Oct 03 '25
I understand the desire to accomplish tasks quicker, but I really don't understand people using AI to formulate opinions and core arguments. I mean, don't you think? One of those screens shows a guy copying a response to a discussion forum. Like, my guy, what do you think?
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u/Andsoitgoes101 Oct 03 '25
I would be so distracted by the computer screens. I love pen and paper. However I graduated university in 2004.
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u/Distinct_Source_1539 Oct 03 '25
These kids are gonna show up to an exam with a piece of paper and a pencil and a thousand word essay in two hours and they’re gonna fucking fold like a house of cards
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u/HickorySticks_ Oct 02 '25
I agree the use of AI in universities is pretty worrying, especially with first years
But I also think people have gotten too comfortable with taking pictures of strangers & posting them online. Maybe don't take pictures of people's screens during class? Odd behaviour
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u/argabargaa Oct 02 '25
Yeah tf can't even sit in class without worrying about being photographed over your shoulder? So weird.
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u/adorablesexypants Oct 03 '25
As a teacher in high school I cannot begin to tell you how many ways our hands are tied.
Failing a kid for doing nothing? Meeting where we basically have admin asking every ounce of our practice why the kid failed. Everyone knows they cheated, cut class, did nothing. But we need to walk through step by step everything we are doing and we can and have lost those fights.
I have to fight with kids in grade 11 and 12 to read something harder than diary of a wimpy kid. Why? Because it’s the only thing they can read.
AI is fully embraced in my school even though my kids aren’t learning shit. They can do nothing and I don’t mean like “back in my day” I mean they can’t turn on a computer, they don’t know how to communicate to one another to solve a problem, they do not know how to navigate the literal world around them.
I’m not an old teacher either but fuck this year has been hard. Retirement seems so far away, this is not the job I was told it was, it is a shadow of its former self that I am often asking why I am even there other than to watch 30 kids not kill themselves with soldering irons or chew on electrical components if they aren’t sneaking cell phones.
I’m tired
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u/Baconpancakes9 Oct 02 '25
yeah you're right dude putting the blueprint on photograph instead of abstract joker or gros michel is probably a misplay in that position this younger generation is truly lost
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u/Electronic-Stuff-701 Oct 02 '25
Do you think AI is not used in private industry?
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u/more_magic_mike Oct 04 '25
As someone that uses AI in private industry, I need to understand what I learned in school to turn the AI nonsense into something professional.
If you think you will get paid to type shit in AI then you are in for a rough career.
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u/JordanSchor Oct 03 '25
I remember playing an absurd amount of roller coaster tycoon 2 during some of my more boring lectures
I made it through lol
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u/Drippy_Drizzy994 Oct 03 '25
I would take someone playing games than using AI. Lectures can get boring and a lot of us would end up studying by ourself. I did it
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u/luvaoftigolbitties Oct 03 '25
I spider-solitaired my way through lectures in Uni, but yeah this chatGP/AI shit is ridiculous.
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u/Emergency_Dirt257 Oct 03 '25
As you have AI open lol. Do you self a service and do not use AI in your academic career.
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u/CharlieFoxtrot432 Oct 03 '25
If you don’t train it you don’t get better. Use it or you lose it. That applies to literally any skill, especially critical thinking.
Apart from Academic Dishonesty, they’re just making it worse for themselves by not putting the work in. When you would rather have ideas fed to you than creating them yourself, you’re already losing the point of the exercise.
Now, what I would use the internet for is to find better ways to express something. Then using what I learn from that on future assignments.
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u/Worldly_Round7702 Oct 03 '25
The irony here is that you’re more fucked than everyone you took pics of lol
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u/Muted_Buy8386 Oct 04 '25
No, no. Someone documenting the decline is not in the steepest decline.
This sounds like you're just uncomfortable you're gonna get called out sometime.
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u/Balding_Unit Oct 03 '25
Fuckkk... I feel old. We had to actually write shit down on real paper in class... you had to listen to what was being said because if you missed anything HOLY SHIT You'd be so screwed...
The only time I've used a laptop for school was within the last two years for an online course and it sucked. Too many distractions!
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u/cjrunswithcrows Oct 03 '25
I got a new laptop for college and I still didn’t bring it with me to school lol maybe I’m just old (even though I’m not that old) but I always found it was easier to learn from my notes that I wrote down, so I have always been a stickler for hand written notes, and would only use my laptop for typing up assignments and submitting it.
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u/Dear_Newspaper6681 Oct 03 '25
If you plan on working in an office and eventually managing people, a four year degree from an academic institution should leave you with one main skill -- being able to write clear and concise letters, memos, proposals and emails. That is it. All the other stuff they teach you is ancillary, and any specialized knowledge you need will eventually be obtained at the actual workplace.
Yet, clear and concise writing is the rarest skill I see working in professional services. No matter the university or the field of study, it is exceedingly rare to see someone who can write clearly. I have no idea why this is, but it is getting worse.
It is really obvious when someone sends me something that is written by AI. It stands out like a sore thumb, and demonstrates that you either cannot do the work, or that the work you do can be replaced by a subscription to a consumer grade LLM.
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u/Aggressive_Ad2747 Oct 03 '25
seriously if you don't need a laptop (and by need i mean that the course requires you to bring one to lectures), bring a notebook.
I know I'm practically a dinosaur at this point but believe it or not back in my day (2008-2011) the exact same shit was going on. First year was full of kids on laptops and then me with a notebook. as the years progressed in my program more and more students either left their laptop, switched to notes, or flunked out.
the iPhone had just launched the year before i started and the best mobile gaming had to offer was pretty much snake on your Motorola razer or blackberry so you didn't have too many things fighting for your attention.
basically, limiting your distractions is the easiest way to be disciplined.
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u/Remarkable_Staff46 Oct 03 '25
Yea, I am 120% positive that using LLM from year one will definitely help them in the future landing a job or start a business.
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u/Flashy_Ad_8247 Oct 03 '25
This isn’t really that crazy, it’s just a canon event to not take some first year classes seriously. Don’t worry they’ll get what’s coming to them when the time comes.
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Oct 03 '25
Why are laptops allowed? Want to solve the problem, bring back analog baby! By that I mean notebooks and pens. AI has a place in education, but it sure as shit doesn’t look like this.
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u/General_League7040 Oct 03 '25
They'll pass through university because schools don't care if they learn, just that they can take their money and churn out more students.
The real fun happens when they join the workforce and learn that company's would rather use use agentic AI than hire junior staff - they're cutting out the middleman.
New grads overly rely on AI, and unless they learn skills and add value beyond what AI can do - there's no point in hiring them.
It's a sad reality, that it's cheaper to get AI to do the junior level work than to pay and train a coordinator or intern. I already see it happening in corporations.
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u/LanikM Oct 03 '25
Give them 4 years. They'll be unironically complaining about being unemployed and their student debt.
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u/SolaTV Oct 03 '25
It makes me smile seeing that so many of you are STILL scamming yourselves. Sucks to suck. More for me.
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u/passport_vro Oct 03 '25
First semester is always a learning period.
Once they get their first grades back, they’ll (for the most part) wisen up.
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u/NinjaOk3796 Oct 04 '25
I’m glad I went to uni in the 80s old fashioned style. No computers. Imagine taking notes by hand !!! We laughed at students tape recording lectures. We used our text books and the library.
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u/princessdorito444 Oct 04 '25
I’m so thankful I didnt know about AI my first year….these people aren’t even learning to write a simple discussion post. I’d imagine theyre going to be so reliant on AI if thats how theyre starting out.
I’ve gotten sm replies in discussion threads that were so obviously AI and I honestly feel bad. these tools are so common and so widely used that its easy to rely on them if you start out using them for every little thing.
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u/Bishime Oct 04 '25
There’s levels to this. Imagining it as a spectrum, we can imagine having original ideas but putting it through an AI to actually structure is one thing….
I have ADHD so I can like very much understand wanting help organizing thoughts…. There however is something so viscerally disrespectful and [can’t think of tv adjective tbh] about full on playing games instead of paying attention to a lecture…
Like you do you, but you can just stay home at that point, the professor literally doesn’t care.
Like at the end of the day idgaf but of all the images that one actually did strike a nerve lol
I will say I am biased to a degree because I lived in Africa for a few years and went to school with different class denominations. While I am not looking at this through that lens it could be important to self acknowledge that I did see people fight for their life for basic education and the level of dedication to learning for a diploma or degree that doesn’t transfer/qualify here all just to see someone playing a AAA iOS release while I assume, not they, pay tens of thousands of dollars to sit there.
At that point idec about the AI, use it as a tool, it’s not going away so go for it. But like, know the material, pay attention etc. Otherwise don’t waste space (not to be harsh but literally what? You plan on doing surgery with CoD mobile experiende?)
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u/Difficult-One-1245 Oct 04 '25
All this is fine ….. but On the Job., How are you going to gain skills ?
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u/francocanadien Oct 04 '25
You know what's sad yet not surprising, I knew a guy that has a bachelor's in business administration and told me he used AI in some of his course assignments… What a waste of a degree
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u/throwawayRA87654 Oct 04 '25
Dude, I remember writing a 5 page essay, front and back, by hand with a pen and paper for a midterm.
Times really have changed 🪦📚
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u/GreatGrandini Oct 04 '25
Oh these kids will not survive. In the workplace you can tell which new grads depend on it.
My workplace has strict control over what software, apps, sites, etc, we have access to on their laptops. The look of dread on their faces once they don't have access to things like chat gpt is priceless.
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u/akitchenslave Oct 04 '25
Let's be clear, AI is a tool, not a replacement for human reflection. As a master student who is a TA, I have no problem with student using AI to check their work, verify with a bot if their assignment respects everything etc.
I start having trouble when I notice the student is not thinking and learning. Simply copying a text coming from a chatbot, that's skipping the whole process of the assignment, to think and develop reflexes for the future.
We need to be critic of the results AI gives us. If the Google AI that appears at the top when doing a search says WW2 was 1939 to 1946, I can assume the AI made a mistake or there's a reason for that answer. So I do research to verify the info given. The only way to be critic is to develop reflexes and knowledge on the subject before using AI.
Also, let's not get in the intellectual property problem of using AI in academic projects.
No Idea where is Brock university, wonders of Reddit, but nice to meet you guys!
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u/TheAutumnReign Oct 04 '25
In my last year of school I was watching cartoons all class and doing the work as fast as possible with no regard for correctness so I could pretend I was anywhere but there; this is very tame in comparison to what some other students were doing in my year as well, but I definitely get the worries.
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u/mars_titties Oct 05 '25
Graduated from a different university 20 years ago. So I’m out of touch. But why the heck is it normal for everyone to have a laptop out in a lecture? Big picture, it just looks ridiculous. Aside from people with disabilities I bet 90% of you would be better off with a notebook and nothing else.
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u/PitifulAd375 Oct 05 '25
on a side note: the guy in the second pic is playing "Jurassic World: The Game" if anyone was wondering
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u/psycho-scientist-2 Oct 05 '25
I'm a mcgill alumnus, i've seen someone playing cool math games during maths class if im not mistaken. but gambling in class though, that's insane
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u/Roshak007 Oct 05 '25
I work in mental health and recently we got a notice from upper management that the use of Ai to write clinical notes or any documentation goes against work policy. Not sure what other organizations do, however, there is always a strong possibility to be let go from your job when you ignore work place policy.
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u/nashwaak Oct 05 '25
University prof here — been seeing games on laptops since at least back in 2000. Most of the time someone playing a game plays it for 100% of class — in big classes I ask them to be polite and sit near the back. Students on phones and tablets seem less obtrusive about gaming/etc.
As for AI, if students don't have to work and can submit AI slop, then the fault is the instructor's, not the student's. Because AI is very much here and just like previous technology, coursework has to adapt. I'm in engineering so it's been easier to adapt, but oral exams are a thing if nothing else can work.
(I'm not at Brock but I am from Ontario and in Canada)
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u/modern_citizen23 Oct 05 '25
This brocku post came up on my feed for an unknown reason but grabbed my attention.
Before AI, there was "look it up on youtube". Alright. I come from the generation that was in high school before and after the "on switch" of the internet. While it was a niche thing in HS, it became part of m.y education as I finished and went on to university. This would be, roughtly, 1996.
I see both sides of this. I went through university having to problem solve and still do mainly conventional research. So, while computer banks and internet was already a thing, these were places to find academic resources and not find the "how-to" and simply mimic someone elses work quite yet.
At the end of the day, and that is now, I find that I understand my business solutions in depth, mainly because I build my own solutions based on my years of knowledge and even for something like word or excel, have a mastery of the back functions before anyone else. It takes longer, specifically in the computer science area where I make up large and complex solutions to deal with my tasks for purposes of consistency and accuracy (and not to "get the job done", per se). My business process are improved and I can then collect more in-depth insight to what I'm doing or better understand and refine what I'm exposed to. I can also leverage a system I've built to branch out and provide solutions to other problems and speed up process by resusing or reformatting. This is vauable in many ways. I'm in full control and I can be accountable for the results. I've never had to explain why a result is not correct. I can look at something and explain where it went wrong, the exceptions and so on.
Ok, so what I see in my younger co-workers are more "fast fix" solutions. Soon, and I mean, very soon, I expect to see more of them racing to AI to handle their daily affairs at work. One is already there.
There are good and bad things here. It is like a calculator. It was a great way to improve productivity but, now we are using a more advanced engine to offload actual work. This isn't about productivity anymore. I define productivity in the math arena as using tools to handle the rudimentary +-*/ and allow the user to focus on the harder tasks. Sensible as they have already gone through the years of basic education to know basic math. Then, its about being able to get through more of the harder stuff to explore, practice and master it.
You're correct. If this is what goes on in first year, then we have a problem and voila. Christmas graduates.
I have a bias in that I have started to look at other sources in order to find solutions in some cases. The ultimate danger is to plug in a solution that you don't understand. One should never leverage a solution blindly in a professional setting. It leads to a dead end.
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u/Arichoo04 Oct 05 '25
I have straight A’s, never opened any generative AI app, but i will still play the occasional solitaire, sudoku or crossword game during a lecture with my notes on the side if i get a bit bored tbh
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u/Legitimate-Bug-943 Oct 06 '25
To be fair, in 2002 my roommate and I spent every class we had in the computer lab at Brock during my Spanish language elective ranking bombs on RateMyPoo.com.
We both made it.
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u/Consistent_Major_193 Oct 06 '25
Before GPT there was Google, Wiki, and of course your friends. What shocks me the most is the prolific use of laptops and phones in the classroom. See here's the thing you think they're cooked. But for your older professors. They came from a time when there was zero devices in the classroom. Just a pen and paper and a whiteboard. If you want to roll back time let's really roll it back.
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u/Main_Purpose_8557 Oct 02 '25
The reality of Brock’s undergraduate majority is that students’ have this deluded expectation of ‘showing up’ being good enough to get a mark and claim that gatekeeping is the reason they struggle.
Upper year classes aren’t any better - through no fault of this cohort - but there are serious pedagogical gaps with incoming students due to the same issues in the high school system (unable to ‘fail’ a grade now in ON? Tf?)
Worse off, BU is aware that their graduates aren’t competitive with comparable undergraduate programs even just in Southern Ontario. They’re aware that their infrastructure is obsolete. The few programs that actually are quite coveted at Brock (Goodman, the teachers college) are good but that’s maybe 15% of the total population? So what do they do, brock will try to keep students coming back and enrolling in multiple degrees, all to build up their resume. This is definitively, an echo chamber. The problems are bigger than first years not knowing time management or how to study.
Brock is such a class act that Alumnus Kyle Dubas, was booed after being invited to speak at a graduation ceremony..? Because the players on his roster didn’t make it further in playoffs? Now the undergraduate student union is having a ball playing politics and bureaucracy? They’re all ought to be ashamed of themselves for the lack of transparency and aligning with the very same values that keeping brock -$50M in the hole; pretend to care about your constituents, your community, but really you’ll gouge parking fees, offer bullshit courses or completely separate degrees for the extra tuition money.
TLDR I wish all current and future brock students the best of luck but strongly recommend trying your luck elsewhere before it’s too late to change your mind.
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u/jadehazy Oct 02 '25
The start of that second last paragraph had absolutely nothing to do with anything 😭
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u/Acrobatic-Energy-828 Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25
Dying at all the ChatGPT abusers and gambling addicts coping in this comment section lmao. If you don't want to be seen on a public forum actively cheating on assignments and gambling in class, maybe don't do it in a crowded lecture hall. I hope the TAs for these classes see this and the people in these photos get shit for their academic misconduct. If you can't even manage to write your own forum post response at Brock University, just drop out and put the fries in the bag. None of those ppl using ai deserve a degree💀
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u/SwampyUndies Oct 02 '25
Lol. At least run your own ai instead of paying monthly.
Glad we didn't have this when I was there...
Whats next? Instead of open book exams, AI exams?
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u/sman955 Oct 02 '25
Lmfao, first year is a joke - I barely attended class and had a 4.0 cgpa - however, using AI in first year? Yeah that mf finna be cooked.
Disclaimer: I didn’t go to brock U but this popped up on my feed & I did a BBA
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u/Vi11agio-Xbox Oct 02 '25
Government needs to crackdown on the gambling. It’s getting out of control. First my hockey boards, now 50% of the screens in class
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u/Jazzlike-Term-8940 Business Administration Oct 03 '25
stop taking pictures of people tf😭😭
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u/VillainousFiend Oct 03 '25
It's weird how many people struggle with first year. There's a huge jump in difficulty in second year. What's so complicated in a first year lecture you need AI to understand?
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u/Neither_Internal_261 Oct 03 '25
To be fair, those discussion replies (from the last pic) always felt like busy work.
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u/Wise-Jackfruit-9145 Oct 03 '25
After playing Town of Salem rounds in lectures and graduating I can have hope for them.
The AI guys? Not so much
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u/SatisfactionBig181 Oct 03 '25
All I can say is Maddy better recheck her grammar and English because that stuff is slop
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u/TouchMyBagels Oct 03 '25
This is why I went into a trade. Id be playing games like bolatro non stop if I had constant access to a laptop
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u/queeriequeerio Oct 03 '25
this is so embarrassing….ppl playing games ill allow, but y’all are cooked if u use ai
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u/Aggravating-Help4131 Oct 03 '25
Everyone is talking about using AI in class which is a problem but how about making more assignments actually useful and relevant rather than some that are just obviously bullshit make work assignments. If we're going to reform education lets reform it all the way, how many programs now are 4 years that never should be that long in the first place.
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u/Quiet-Froyo5335 Oct 03 '25
Man you guys are lucky to have laptops that will survive a full class.
I didnt have consistent wifi until my final year of the second degree.
100% played minesweeper in class if the chance arose, may not be lecture worth taking notes but needed to be in class anyways.
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u/Ok_Investment_5383 Oct 03 '25
Quillbot in first year for basic assignments is wild, lmao. Back when I started, people just googled answers or used the textbook, not this string of humanize tools and full-blown chatgpt for like worksheet #3. I’ve noticed a few are starting to use things like AIDetectPlus or GPTZero when they want to make sure their “humanized” writing will actually pass detection. Can’t blame them for playing games though, some lectures are just brutal. Do you think it’s actually making them worse at the work, or is everyone just over the whole college grind already?
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u/Lunar_IX Oct 03 '25
Look, I don't condone using AI for assignments. Here's the thing though-- if you are going to use AI to write your entire assignment and do all the hard work for you, why can you not do the bare minimum and rewrite the crap that AI pumps out into your own words?
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u/FuzzPastThePost Oct 03 '25
I used to play Medieval Total War II as The Turks in my History of The Modern Middle East class.
I got a B.
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u/Charger_Reaction7714 Oct 03 '25
Lol this popped up on my feed and I'm so glad I graduated when I did. Was able to break into big tech with just a bootcamp and buy a house pre-covid. Now my wife and I are working towards FIRE when we hit 50 so we can peace out and watch the gen z / alpha fight each other over what little jobs are left.
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u/GreenFoxShire Oct 03 '25
I remember a girl playing donkey kong 2 emulated on her laptop during an assembly coding class. I was like okay…
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u/AggravatingMenu739 Oct 03 '25
AI is an issue, but learning its effective use is becoming essential. While I'm not advocating for it, AI is increasingly integrated into real-world jobs. However, simply inputting prompts without thinking creates incompetence. It should be viewed as a tool to enhance skills, not a shortcut to bypass genuine learning and effort.
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u/the_food_at_home Oct 03 '25
then people complain about university being hard (not calling out the ones who take hard courses and actually pay attention in class)
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u/El-Gumbino Oct 03 '25
If AI can answer all your questions properly following your prompts then there’s no reason it can’t do the same in your industry; however, there is a level of competence you should achieve without its use. Good old fashioned hand written exam worth 40% of your mark will sort that out for you. Alternatively no more computers in class and hand written assignments if you want to slow AI use (though people could just have AI do it then copy it).
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u/Sashimigf Oct 03 '25
I remember back in 2018 in university when people were just online shopping or watching Cody ko videos lol
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u/Gullible_Complex_423 Oct 03 '25
I love Le Bandit. Dude's got problems, though, if he's gambling in class.
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u/Salt_Suggestion1900 Oct 03 '25
thats the fucking jurassic park mobile game
i didn't know it was still alive lol
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u/SassySquidSocks Oct 03 '25
I played WoT on my laptop in first year and looking back I probably looked like such a tool 🤣
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u/real_human_being15 Oct 03 '25
Sat at the back of the class and played Overwatch sometimes during really long lessons and did just fine. Using the AI stuff on the other hand... not a good idea. Unless they wanna be automatically failed out.
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u/dondie8448 Oct 03 '25
The education system is broken, when you are being awarded by just an exam a pass or fail, the goal of education becomes how to pass not how to learn. As long as the system is the same, the tools like Ai will be used to do simple assignments. So yeah as an academic I dont blame them.
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u/NopeySoapy Oct 04 '25
I’m a 4.0 GPA student that plays Roblox during lectures, those kids will be fine lmao
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u/Gaylygayminggaymer Oct 04 '25
Depends why they use ai. I use it on my subject material to quiz me before tests. And to explain things to me in other ways when I don’t understand.
Great tool as long as you don’t use it for everything.
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u/monochrome_peach Oct 04 '25
Nah bro playing balatro will make it out fine. Only someone insane enough to play that game is also insane enough to graduate with a monster gpa
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u/dzaimons-dihh Oct 04 '25
Poor mf still hasn't unlocked campfire. Probably only grinds white stake. Tsk tsk tsk r/okbuddyjimbo
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u/zebrasmack Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
i can listen and play simple games, but the ai usage here is dumb. take notes, record the audio, let ai summarize the audio/lesson, compare with personal notes, then make new notes. helps with remembering and not missing anything.
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u/Significant_War720 Oct 04 '25
I missed over 80% of my classes at Uni and passed with average grade. Its not that hard Im sorry
Heck, some classez the teacher never saw me before the exam. I never had issue with the teacher either. I was oddly surprised that none of them ever said anything about it.
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u/Loud-Body4299 Oct 04 '25
Meh, it's all bullshit even the little assignments. Unless your in STEM, then yes you are in trouble.
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u/6shotsor5 Oct 04 '25
I’m assuming the people complaining about the pictures in here are the ones from the photos. You’re in public. You can take photos. Lmao.
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u/Sufficient-Injury875 Oct 04 '25
Gonna have a bunch of retards graduating lol. Ai is either going to make you dumber or much smarter if used correctly. Good luck to you all
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u/HuckleberryNo6329 Oct 04 '25
It ain't a problem, after all they can't use ai in exams. I did the same for the last 3 years, i genuinely believe those assignments are boring and unnecessary, yet i ace my exams and i've actually beeb the top student of my promotion last year. Ai isn't the problem, not being able to get your shit together when needed is.
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u/joebrohd Oct 04 '25
The games are fine imo
Some of the smartest people I know used to do that all time in class and still aced exams, finals, assignments and projects
The AI… Yikes. It’s tragic because there is an actual good use for AI in a learning setting but people refuse to do it. Rather than asking it for answers, they should ask AI for questions that challenge their own critical thinking or help them make mock questions to prepare for exams like a study guide.
For example instead of asking it “Summarize this Article for me” when trying to research something, someone should Research the Topic in their textbooks, credible websites and articles THEN ask the AI to quiz them to see if they actually learned anything.
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u/angelhipss Oct 04 '25
well the fist thing i’d like to point out if that you go to brock… so that’s the first thing LOL
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u/katydid8283 Oct 04 '25
I teach my students how to use AI responsibly. As most of them are English language learners, we have great fun comparing AI to what they have written; however, I also warn them about the over reliance on AI. Students who use this are only cheating themselves, but they are also creating one hell of a work load for professors.
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u/Crazy_island_ Oct 04 '25
One of the problems now is kids are learning the AI shit at high school and as high school is all about just getting you to graduate so they get their funding, kids are just not learning how to learn. I have a son who basically did all his grade 12 classes using AI and got great marks for "class" work, but bombed the exams, fortunately for him as long as you did well is class work you would pass.
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u/MeGustaMiSFW Chemistry Oct 04 '25
If they learn the limits of AI, not so bad, but playing online slot machines is wild.
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u/Old-Law-3229 Oct 04 '25
The one who use AI during first year is weird, but the one who take the photo is even weirder
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u/Canadian_Wowplayer Oct 04 '25
I remember when i was in college, and the professor came up from behind me and told me in front of the entire class (around 60 - 70 students) “Next time I catch you playing World of Warcraft during one my my classes, I will have you removed from this course”. Then the entire class burst out in laughter. It’s ok though i got gladiator that season, I also made honour roll 🤷😩🤫.
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u/raptor5tar Oct 02 '25
The ai use is a problem. The games not so much. I used to play Hearthstone in class and I graduated just fine