If students are seeing an LLM as a source at all then they’ve already made the critical mistake, in the context of e.g. writing a paper or solving a problem.
Can the LLM cite its own sources, such that you can re-generate the relevant findings from those sources without referencing anything else the LLM claimed? Great. If not, then from a research POV it’s claims are no more authoritative than writing “My dad said...”
I am also very, very aware that our teachers, our schools, and our students are not at all set up to actually get people to learn the skills/mindset needed to do better, or to use LLMs well more generally, for many reasons. The problem is somewhat harder and vastly more important and urgent than it used to be before LLMs. I am not sure most people can achieve the necessary mindset and habits to get past this without a lot of societal and technological scaffolding we don’t have today, and I can only hope we’ll build that adequately.
If students are seeing an LLM as a source at all then they’ve already made the critical mistake, in the context of e.g. writing a paper or solving a problem.
Can the LLM cite its own sources, such that you can re-generate the relevant findings from those sources without referencing anything else the LLM claimed? Great. If not, then from a research POV it’s claims are no more authoritative than writing “My dad said...”
I am also very, very aware that our teachers, our schools, and our students are not at all set up to actually get people to learn the skills/mindset needed to do better, or to use LLMs well more generally, for many reasons. The problem is somewhat harder and vastly more important and urgent than it used to be before LLMs. I am not sure most people can achieve the necessary mindset and habits to get past this without a lot of societal and technological scaffolding we don’t have today, and I can only hope we’ll build that adequately.