>This is a surprising perspective given that in many ways I had the same conversation with chatgpt about my work that I might have had with a colleague or a spouse.
Yes, it's possible to scoop academic colleagues and steal ideas from spouses. Plagiarism applies there too.
>But I don't think we have any consensus as to where the line should be between "acceptable use" and plagerism.
Perhaps, but using it to generate ideas you claim are yours, let alone quoting it directly, are all well past that line. Unless you put ChatGPT in the author list of the paper, in which case, sure, fair play.
>For reference, of course the calculator policy at my Australian school in the 90s was different from yours. We generally weren't allowed calculators on the school grounds at all. That started to change right at the end of high school, when they started allowing calculators in class and non-graphing calculators in examinations. (They checked as we walked in the door). But for most of my grade school experience, calculators were banned.
Unsurprisingly, this doesn't change or contradict my point at all. Any math you're doing in high school should not require a calculator, or at the very least can be taught without any calculators used.
>Rude. Rude and wrong.
I'm speaking with a tone appropriate for the nature of my company here (an academic fraud and one or two people who support him)