Are discussion questions becoming irrelevant with AI??

[davewill]

Holy Smokes folks....  So the clearly AI post....  I commented asking if they could provide the link to the article because I couldn't find it.  (I worded it like I was interested to read it - not accusatory).  Would you believe someone else replied "Thanks for sharing such an interesting article.  I enjoyed reading it." ?????   Dude.  No, you didn't.  It doesn't exist.  There was no link.  There was no author name given.  There was no company mentioned.  It was all vague buzzwords that could be literally anything.  Yup, another lazy-a$$ confirming a cheater.

That's your chance to reply them saying, "Great!, then you can supply the link for me." However, they will not read it, and they certainly will not reply and admit they don't have a link because they never read the "article". They got credit for replying to the chat, and that's their only interest.

It's a little sad. A lot of people will take this as an indication that class discussion is useless and they should just stop requiring it. However, I think that a college level class should require a bit of idea exchange. However, if the prof doesn't give a damn, the students can only do so much.