Fuck chegg. The only way to get through homework without spending 27 hours a day on it was to pay money for the wrong answer from chegg and then flunk out anyway. Now we have ai which can get you the answer FOR FREE, often even if it’s a loaded trick question. I really wish I would have capitalized on that short window of time from after ai was invented and before schools got smarter about combating cheating.
Going to college was the biggest mistake of my life and I wish I would have instead spent all the money on hookers like boogie2988 did.
I think you are supposed to just do the homework
Sad, one of my classes I really relied on Chegg to help me through the homework.
the fuck is a chegg?
The article explains it in the first few paragraphs. Here is paragraph 2 and most of paragraph 3:
Chegg should be familiar to most people who have been to college in recent years. It started out in the 2000s renting out textbooks and later expanded into online study guides, and eventually into a platform with pre-written answers to common homework questions.
Unfortunately, the launch of ChatGPT all but annihilated Chegg’s business model. The company for years paid thousands of contractors to write answers to questions across every major subject, which is quite a labor intensive process—and there’s no guarantee they will even have the answer to your question.
Wasn’t it like Napster in that originally it was for pirating text books?
I don’t think so, but I honestly hadn’t heard of Chegg before today either.
TIL I learned that Chegg was 1) still around 2) did more than sell college textbooks.
It must be sad to see your company value evaporate at the hands of the equivalent of liar-Russian-roulette, where the AI will return an answer to most anything. And it will return that answer with complete confidence, giving no indication if the result is real or completely fabricated.
I guess I had a much different experience with Chegg than most.
For a handful of my classes, it was the only way to consistently get similar problems with worked out solutions. I’m not going to pretend I never was lazy and used it to cheat, but most of my usage was of problems I wasn’t assigned so I could see how they were done.
That said, I can’t speak as to how they pay the people that actually do the work, that may be a whole can of worms that I really probably should’ve looked into when I was using it.
Good. Fuck Chegg. Let cheating, plagiarizing dipshits have the dubious AI slop.
There’s a stock ticker for this thing?
