Raw LLM Responses

All my kids are Gen Z, but they run the whole spectrum in terms of AI familiarity and use. I have been astounded at my teenagers' use of AI, which my oldest children have yet to use in practical ways. They're aware of it, my children in their mid to late 20s, but it's a gee whiz thing. They never used it for practical purposes in school (not even college) nor in their professions. (Though I'm sure that will change.) But my children still high school now use AI most every school day. Sure, they used it for the gee whiz factor (generating funky images and asking it trivia questions) at first. But a few weeks ago, I was writing an email to my member of congress and had to condense my writing down to a certain number of words to fit his form for responses. I reduced it some, but I had to hurry because the bill was being debated and was supposed to be up for vote within hours. Finally, my son (who had just graduated high school and was alternating between Minecraft and job applications on the computer next to me) said, "Just dump it into ChatGPT and ask it to summarize it." I did. I was amazed. I did cut some things that I had wanted to include, which is why I had struggled so much to summarize, but it did a great job of using my own words, keeping the main points I wanted to make, and reducing the word count enough to fit in the Representative's email form. I suspect he had used it in such a way all year (at the very least) for his writing assignments. The syllabi that I had to read and sign for my 2 remaining high schoolers this year all talked about how AI could and could not be used. Guess what? It's not cheating to use AI to write, any more than it is to use a calculator in math class. Or a spreadsheet for a project. Quite frankly, AI applifies the GIGO principle exponentially. A kid that doesn't know what they're talking about and asks AI write something for them is going to come out with nonsense that sounds like AI. So teachers WILL need to be on their toes. But they also can use AI (with sites like turnitin.com) to help check for such things. It'll improve our lives like computers, calculators, and cars did. I'm with Tyson on this one.