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That's a possibility. But it looks so bad. If it was generated by ai, why would they ask to make it look like a grainy scan taken from a book on a scanner from the 90s? Hopefully your note was friendly, as everyone can make mistakes, and teachers deserve big piles of gold delivered every week to their homes. Wouldn't it be funny if you made a mistake or didn't understand the instructions? I have no idea either way, I've never seen this kind of math problem, I just think it would be funny, especially if you were being an asshole to the person looking after your kid for 8 hours a day in your letter.
If i would post the whole page, you also would agree that its 10000 percent AI.
Yes i was nice. But you cant give that to your little students and didnt even did the tasks for yourself to check....
Thats the point i just cant justify
If you trust the source material, like the publisher of a math book, it's OK to not verify every single practice problem as a teacher. Editors are paid to do that.
Well do that then. Why should we take your word on it, there's no evidence here.
Besides the fact that neither problem shown is actually solvable. Which is absolutely a mistake a clanker would make
Making mistakes is also a human problem, unfortunately. If you change the 8 to a 6, everything works, 300, 220, 350, 100, -50. My guess is a transcription error: the editors cleared the problem, but the typesetter fat fingered it when making a graphic.
OP mentioned that their Kid has not been taught the concept of negative numbers yet. So the -50 for the lower right part of the right "brick wall" wouldn't make sense either.
I also want to see the whole AI page please
Why look like an old 90s textbook? That's also whats being used to train models.
Warehouses of textbooks are being fed into the machines.
I think this is a plausible sequence of events:
That would explain the nonsensical numbers and the poor scan quality. Remember that not all teachers are comfortable with tech, so making carbon copies of a sheet of paper may be easier for them than obtaining the original digital file that ChatGPT spit out and printing it out.
Like I said, it's a possibility. I don't see any evidence for it though.
At this point I'm pretty sure you're being deliberately obtuse because you don't want to admit you're wrong
Lol ok, I think you need to chill... The difference between speculation and evidence is pretty clear cut to me. Evidence for a claim requires it to support your claim over other explanations. You can explain why a printout looks like a shitty photocopy either by using ai+shitty photocopier or just a shitty photocopier. Nothing in the comment or post preferentially supports the claim of ai use, other than a perceived math error.
Because AI is trained off of images that look like a book scanner from the 90s.