Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 31, 2025

Caulfield uses ChatGPT.

Caulfield is not best role model?

The term for that is faulty conclusion. Garbage in, garbage out (which refers to ocmputer data) does not mean good stuff in, good stuff out. So, another kid making a bad assumption.

Good stuff in, good stuff out. Every fine restaurant tells you that’s not true.

If Caulfield is writing essays, he is a rich man!… uh, third grader…

It has become a life skill to choose the proper source to plagiarize. The best AI for the assignment.

Kid has the right idea. Depending on which one chooses, garbage or good stuff, the outcome will match. The problem being that many don’t clearly recognize which is which.

It’s rare that Caulfield is mentioned in conversation with another child. I can’t really imagine his classmates are fond of him.

FWIW, what the kid was searching for was what termed “Gold In Gold Out” back in the day. GIGO was preserved.

That is the WRONG advice, dude. How about “Think for yourself. It is a dying art.”

The problem there is actually that doing it that way, NOTHING goes IN.

Say, have we ever seen a bully at this school? If not, we should give the administrators more credit.

Careful about Caulfield: You don’t want anyone to Catch you In The Rye.

no ChatGPT copies from Caulfield

I read one of those “Ten Words that Prove It’s AI” quizzes, and seven of the words are ones that I use in daily conversation. Do robots really sound like ME?

Tangled up in Caulfields grammar, or in Caulfields handwriting? I imagine Caulfield to use cursive.

Purgamentum init; exit Purgamentum

His argument is also very Caufield-ish

As I have always said: Good data in doesn’t necessarily mean good data out, but Garbage in ALWAYS equals Garbage out.