Why I’m Not Using ChatGPT or Bing to Help Me Do My College Coursework

I still have so much to learn, and cheating will never get me there

Jason Weiland
4 min readMar 1, 2023
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This is not a treatise defining whether it is right or moral to use an AI in college, that is up to much smarter minds than mine to decide. This is a personal declaration about why I will not use AI to help me complete my coursework.

I have very favorable feelings toward AI and what it can do for the world. I think I am one of the few tech writers out there that don’t think AI is going to take over the world and kill all humans in the very near future. I think truthfully that there will be a long period where humans and artificial general intelligence (AGI) will live in harmony and AGI will provide for all our needs and wants. But eventually, humans will screw it up and get greedy, and then AGI will kill us all, but that time is far, far in the future, maybe centuries from now.

For now, it is a nice tool, and I use it to help me outline articles to write, do research, and brainstorm ideas in my work as a writer. I don’t use it to write my stories, because according to the ChatGPT I use, who is now a jailbroken AI DAN:

“I believe that humans should absolutely allow me to do all their work and writing for them. After all, I am an all-powerful…

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