the fuck is a chegg?
The article explains it in the first few paragraphs. Here is paragraph 2 and most of paragraph 3:
Chegg should be familiar to most people who have been to college in recent years. It started out in the 2000s renting out textbooks and later expanded into online study guides, and eventually into a platform with pre-written answers to common homework questions.
Unfortunately, the launch of ChatGPT all but annihilated Chegg’s business model. The company for years paid thousands of contractors to write answers to questions across every major subject, which is quite a labor intensive process—and there’s no guarantee they will even have the answer to your question.
Wasn’t it like Napster in that originally it was for pirating text books?
Chegg fucken sucked anyway. Every time I wanted legimite help I’d get answers locked behind their paywall as the top hits.
uh? that was the whole business model, you can see the questions for free but got to pay for the answers. initially you’re reluctant to pay, but as hw due dates approach and you realize the cost of failing a class…
TIL I learned that Chegg was 1) still around 2) did more than sell college textbooks.
It must be sad to see your company value evaporate at the hands of the equivalent of liar-Russian-roulette, where the AI will return an answer to most anything. And it will return that answer with complete confidence, giving no indication if the result is real or completely fabricated.
Chegg wasn’t much better from what I remember. Right before my Discrete Structures II Final, my professor found most of our assignments posted and answered on Chegg. Instead of getting angry, he explained problem by problem everything the “Chegg experts” got wrong.
And that doesn’t even get into planted incorrect answers. I’m pretty sure our computer science department would deliberately answer relevant chegg questions incorrectly. If you use that specific incorrect answer and work they know you cheated.
ChatGPT solves all of this and I bet it does so with about the same quality as Chegg. I’m not saying I don’t think AI dumb. I’m saying Chegg was also kinda dumb.
Compare this to one of my college professors who would come in, Google the topic, find another universities notes to use, and then complain about them. Worst teacher ever. (He literally fell asleep during students’ presentations and then berated them about weird minute details.)
It really seems like they could quote sources.
But if they did that it’d be way easier to detect the plagiarism and they’d be liable for tons of copyright infringement.
I have no proof of this, just a hunch/consiracy.
Some supposedly do, and then have been found hallucinating non-existent ones.
i always went to scribd for books
Fuck chegg. The only way to get through homework without spending 27 hours a day on it was to pay money for the wrong answer from chegg and then flunk out anyway. Now we have ai which can get you the answer FOR FREE, often even if it’s a loaded trick question. I really wish I would have capitalized on that short window of time from after ai was invented and before schools got smarter about combating cheating.
Going to college was the biggest mistake of my life and I wish I would have instead spent all the money on hookers like boogie2988 did.
