Letter: What’s Your Take On This?
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AI is a tool. If she is using as an assistant it’s one thing. But, if she’s handing in reports she hasn’t the slightest- it’s a problem.
Facts.
100% great move
I think ur ruining your child by taking away their creative thinking. This is a major disadvantage for them and will hurt them in the future when they cant think for themselves.
100000%
Is it a hashkafa shaila of using internet etc?
Rav Matisyahu Salomon was against homework – I think because of taking away a child’s time, and being quite disturbing to a child – he was already in school for many hours, and now feels that the long arm of the teacher is getting him at home.
So, talk to the school. If it is taking anything more than 5-10 minutes, it’s wrong according to his hashkafos. They can have the writing assignments on schools time.
The teacher thinks that the student is writing it on her own. Therefore, we are teaching our children that sheker (by submitting something with her name that isn’t her work) is an acceptable practice. Help! And when when she gets a hopefully good grade on her paper, I hope she compliments her computer and doesn’t chas v’shalom take the credit for herself.
The main problem here is Sheker. I don’t think she will grow up not learning how to write on her own, by using AI, but if teachers think she’s writing it herself then Sheker is a real problem. Honesty is important.
Your kid is learning to cheat from her parent! Not sure what other cheshbon is…
It’s like offering to do her homework for her. Do you do that also?
i feel that when a kid works so hard on homework their brains really start to hurt, and i truly feel that it’s not healthy. especially when a teacher gives homework that takes 2 hours, but on the other hand there is the sheker part… it may be considered lying.
Agree with other commenters. You’re modeling deception.
submit the question to rav yehuda mandel
DO NOT HAVE GUILT! GOSSAGE SAYS KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK AND LET AI DO THE WORK!!!
IT WILL NOT MATTER IF SHE CAN SUCCESSFULLY WRITE ESSAYS – IS HER GOAL TO BE A WRITER OR GO TO SEMINARY AND GET MARRIED AND LIVE A HAPPY LIFE WITH A TORAH FAMILY?
GOSSAGE RESTS HIS CASE!!!
GOSSAGE OUT!
AI is the future, kids already have way to much homework and if AI is becoming an essential part of our lives then your child learning how to use it can be beneficial. On the other hand you must be careful to explain to your children that in general taking credit for something that isn’t your work is a bad habit.
Also most teachers may not say anything but they assume some of their students are using AI and can usually see when it’s written by AI.
I think it is wrong because she’s not learning anything by doing this. AI defeats the purpose of her actually doing the assignment and thinking for herself
My main concern here would be how you can monitor what your child is discussing with the AI. I use AI extensively myself and would never allow a kid near it. How can you know it is not discussing critical emunah questions?
Do whatever you want. The only one who gets affected is your daughter. She won’t learn writing, grammar, spelling…. If you don’t care that’s your decision.
as an English teacher I only allow work done in the classroom so the students actually learn.
Some care some don’t.
If the Toah mida of emes is important in your family, just have your child write at the end (or beginning) of the essay, “written with the help of AI.”
Whoops. You can see I did not use AI because I misspelled the word, “Torah.”
I wonder if this is a true question or just hock as this was a topic at the recent Torah Umesorah convention.
If it is true, it is awful as the reason for assignments is to get the student to learn and retain the material that they learn in school. Not only that, it will teach them how to write well. If they use AI (chatgpt), it is defeating those purposes.
Not to mention that it is sheker to say that they wrote it by themselves and not the Torah way.
It is important for your daughter’s intellectual development to write on her own and once she has mastered that – as an adult – she can use AI.
You write. “The school hasn’t caught on yet.”
So obviously you know it’s wrong. So you’ve come to the scoop to seek validation?
(But yes, I agree, there is too much homework.)
Teach her to use it properly- help get some ideas and then she can write it herself. Or she can write the basics and have ai fix it up. But to have ai completely do the assignment is wrong and will come back to bite her.
Dear Curious,
I wonder what you would think. When walking with my children, I never taught them how to look both ways before crossing the road. After all, I am with them, and can tell better than they can what to anticipate before crossing. I wonder what will happen when they grow up….
Complete Gnaivas daas. Ask a rav if you need to tell the teachers about past papers but she should not be handing in “artificial” work without their knowledge for future work. Middos are more important then term papers.
why do you send your kid school?