Professor Lionel Smith has been using ChatGPT for the past year, and the students are starting to notice.
“I just asked Professor Smith about the syllabus, but he pulled out his phone and asked ChatGPT the same question,” said Freshman Mark Leyton. “Like, didn’t he write it? Why is he asking ChatGPT?”
Sources say Professor Smith is even paying for ChatGPT Premium. The same source says he is spending upwards of $20 a month to get unlimited ChatGPT 5.0 use and unlimited image uploads.
Any questions asked in class get deferred directly to ChatGPT, or Chatty, as he calls it.
“I love Chatty, he answers all my questions no matter the subject,” said Professor Smith when we sat down for an interview.
We asked Professor Smith to show us an example of how he would use ChatGPT. He then asked the AI what five times five was. The chatbot’s answer?
“It’s 21—no wait—actually it is 25.” Why AI can not confidently give the correct answer first still puzzles scientists.
“Well, because it thinks so fast, it thought up the answer so quickly it couldn’t handle the speed of its own intelligence,” said Smith while rambling to find a reason for the AI’s mistake.
Students, on the other hand, have differing opinions. “It’s just not that smart,” said Leyton
“If it’s an AI, it should confidently give either the wrong or the right answer. There is no reason it should’ve made the mistake, then also corrected it in the same answer,” said Jonathan Decid, a science major in Professor Smith’s class.
“He hasn’t answered any of our questions this year; it’s always that bot. I don’t even know what he does here. He spends all of class time asking ChatGPT random questions, too,” Decid also complained.
One example Decid gave was the time Professor Smith asked the class, “You guys think there are more doors or wheels in the room? I’m going to ask Chatty, he’ll know.”
Studies from Harvard and Princeton have found that, on average, 4 out of 10 men aged 50-60 use ChatGPT more than anyone else in the population. Studies estimate that they ask ChatGPT nearly 400 questions per day.
Out of ChatGPT’s 8.4 tons of Carbon Dioxide emitted per year gathering data and answering questions, these men contributed 2.5 tons.
“I paid $200 for the textbook for this class. I don’t know if he knows the name of it,” said Leyton.
“Textbook questions? I don’t know about that, I’ll ask Chatty,” said Professor Smith
“I don’t think Chat even answers the questions. Most of the time, the AI just repeats what he says and says it can do that,” said Leyton.
ChatGPT has quickly taken over the world in the three years since it went online. Teachers have scrambled to combat student use, but what do students do when the teachers are the ones overusing it?
Johnathan Decid’s answer is: “Umm, idk honestly, let me ask Gemini real quick.”
