#Google#Chrome is now popping up a "let us help you cheat on your school work" popup in the URL bar when it thinks you're on a school site. OK, actually it says "homework help" but it amounts to the same thing. It's driving schools crazy because it's even popping up on quizzes and tests. There appears to be no way to reasonably disable it, and responses from Google suggest they don't give a damn as long their horrific AI gets used more. It's even popping up on sites that have NOTHING to do with schools -- I'm getting it on technical sites that happen to have the word "tutorial" in their URL. More nightmare sauce from #Google.
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@mabonzo Most FOSS is simply impractical for routinely underfunded school districts to responsibly support, unfortunately, even if there was uniformity of all necessary apps, which of course there isn't.
@lauren I am saying the curriculum can reflect any depth and topic, thusly should be accessible first and supplementary second. Relying on internet connection is not compulsory to utilize computing in an industrial setting let alone a educational one.
@mabonzo Again, many schools can't even afford pencils. To not engage with the Internet resource available would be doing a vast disservice to students who have to go out in the real world sooner or later.
@lauren Speaking on cost should raise the merit of accessibility but what do I know? I never had an ubuntu flashdrive I took to school....
@lauren perhaps they're asking the wrong question: "Other than blocking Google are there any other ways of complying with our schools' policy on using AI"
@lauren Gosh, I'm seeing a whole of people (by which I mean tech dudes) respond to this post with, "Schools just need to use this one weird trick that Google doesn't want you to know about."
Great, guy. I take this to mean that you're all calling your local public schools to volunteer to provide them with unlimited, unpaid, on-call tech support.
Right?
Right???
(cf Star Wars meme)
@lauren I hadn't seen this pop up yet and I use Chrome often when on my Chromebook.
@lauren If AI was drugs, we would call Google a dealer on school property here. Aggressively trying to get kids hooked on the product..
@lauren if these are school provided chromebooks you can disable it by searching for "lens" in chrome://flags and selecting disable
@lauren
I have to test this with the "limited exam user" of my school.
I have to test this with the "limited exam user" of my school.
@lauren
There is a way to disable it. Take the classroom computers and heave them into a bonfire.
It's time for adults to grow up and realize that the Internet, despite all its wonderful potential, has become a disease that destroys the brains of children and of many adults.
@lauren
I’ll bet that’s super-fun for the schools that went all-in on the Chromebooks. 😞
I’ll bet that’s super-fun for the schools that went all-in on the Chromebooks. 😞
@lauren Wow. This is a level of AI intrusion, only a few days after the court let Google keep Chrome
@lauren why are you having quizes in unrestricted browsers/environments?
@oilheap @lauren Do you understand that all but the wealthiest schools are struggling to maintain their facilities, pay teachers and paraprofessionals, and feed their pupils? Google controls the browser, the operating system, and the assignments system, yet somehow school IT is supposed to outmaneuver them?
@fivetonsflax @lauren sounds like they have outsourced their IT to Google. Maybe go back to pen and paper for quizzes then.
@oilheap Ask the schools, not me.
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