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"My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Post by oldandboring »

incomingpain wrote: post #3

I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI. 10 em dashes, and ai formatting. Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline. >Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. It's remarkably written for that viralness. >My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind…

After reading the first couple paragraphs I realized it was structured like marketing content. Then I saw the first emdash and nope'd out. Control-W, get that slop out of my life.

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Post by bongothrowaway »

incomingpain wrote: post #3

I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI. 10 em dashes, and ai formatting. Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline. >Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. It's remarkably written for that viralness. >My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind…

So here's my question: if the story is fake, what's the goal here?

Re: "My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."

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Post by suhail »

incomingpain wrote: post #3

I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI. 10 em dashes, and ai formatting. Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline. >Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. It's remarkably written for that viralness. >My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind…

gpt zero, which detects ai writing, thinks it’s 100% written by ai

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Post by SirMaster »

This just reads like someone who didn't evolve and adapt to the changing landscape of education. I know multiple young teachers who love teaching and love their classrooms and students etc, and they seem to have adapted or are adapting just fine to the changing education landscape.

As much as we would like things to stay the same, we all have to learn to adapt to the changing landscape of our various careers and jobs etc.

That's just my opinion.

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Post by dkarl »

incomingpain wrote: post #3

I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI. 10 em dashes, and ai formatting. Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline. >Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. It's remarkably written for that viralness. >My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind…

One way or another, it's fake. A teacher who started teaching in the 1980s would absolutely say that the exhaustion, red tape, and loneliness were there from the beginning. Parents were less hostile towards the teachers, but only because they were less involved, and some of them would get hostile if you asked them to give a shit about their kid.

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Post by albedoa »

bongothrowaway wrote: post #12
incomingpain wrote: post #3

I'm fairly confident that's a fake story written by AI. 10 em dashes, and ai formatting. Almost every sentence ends with a dramatic punchline. >Watching a child sound out their first sentence felt like magic. It's remarkably written for that viralness. >My name is Mrs. Clara Holt, and for four decades, I taught kindergarten in a small Denver suburb. Today, I stacked the last box on my desk and locked the door behind…

So here's my question: if the story is fake, what's the goal here?

Engagement.

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Post by rekgjkjrh »

SirMaster wrote: post #14

This just reads like someone who didn't evolve and adapt to the changing landscape of education. I know multiple young teachers who love teaching and love their classrooms and students etc, and they seem to have adapted or are adapting just fine to the changing education landscape. As much as we would like things to stay the same, we all have to learn to adapt to the changing landscape of our various careers and jobs…

I would like to hear from you how you think this adaptation should've or could've looked like.
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