David Cooper

You run it through this chatbot that you've designed to help and it gives them an adequate response.

That would be like a sort of real world, I don't know, analogy of what you're working on.

Sure, and I wonder if you could sneakily fake it, like you could delay the answer, you could sign the answer as coming from you or your team, your teacher's assistant.

Yeah.

So the students in general were pretty happy with this chatbot's answers, weren't they?

But, you know, I'm not so surprised.

Okay, so let's get to the big twist here.

What happened when the students found out that answer came from a chatbot and not you?

To say nothing for the fact that you kind of designed the bot and designed the way it would answer.

We got to give you credit there.

But when they found that out, how did they then feel about the answers?

So was there any kind of bias towards the chat bot or just the very fact that they like ranked one that they thought was a chat bot lowly?

That was what the bias was.

Yeah.

why might we feel that?

Do we feel like using them as lazy?

Do we feel like we know that chat GPT can very occasionally hallucinate?

And so we're skeptical, you know, for that percentage of times that it does a bad job.

We just sort of think it's going to do a bad job all the time.

Is it both of those things, perhaps something else?