• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Chegg fucken sucked anyway. Every time I wanted legimite help I’d get answers locked behind their paywall as the top hits.

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      1 month ago

      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.

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      1 month ago

      Once upon a time, straight outta school, I wrote up solutions to problems from the Serway physics book. For Chegg. $5 per problem.

      Fuck Chegg.

  • CumWeedPoop@lemmynsfw.com
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    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.

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    1 month ago

    Sad, one of my classes I really relied on Chegg to help me through the homework.