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[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who will explain the concept of a regular printer to him?

[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who will explain the concept of a plotter to you?

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Plotters are awesome.

Like a printer, but with pens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or knives! Or inkjets! There are all kinds of bastards, I used to work with the knife variety (huge Roland thingamabobs) and also sell them.

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[–] ssboomman@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago (35 children)

Teachers are starting to enforce hand written assignments to stop the use of chatGPT

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could one not just copy a chat got essay by hand?

[–] WiildFiire@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can't jack off, play league, and write your homework with just two hands

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[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Sounds like a disability act lawsuit waiting to happen tbh. Some of us have very poor fine motor skills or worse and would be severely disadvantaged by having to do even short hand written assignments..

[–] Kolrami@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

If someone actually had a disability, they wouldn't have to do it or would be given other accommodations. That's basically how it was for thousands of years before people had word processors.

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[–] ylai@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Germany traditionally is quite shocking in their practice of segregating children with disabilities into special Förderschulen. Whereas the U.S. has the Individual’s with Disabilities Education Act since the 1970s, Germany was basically forced into integration recently after the country signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009. And even then, they are taking their sweet time to integrate. See e.g. https://www.aktion-mensch.de/inklusion/bildung/hintergrund/zahlen-daten-und-fakten/inklusionsquoten-in-deutschland as how currently, slightly less than half of German students with disabilities go to a regular school (the Inklusionsanteil).

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[–] Landi@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think, the handwritten font, that is used by the plotter, does not support german umlauts. But if you create your own handwriting font, this might be a fun idea to try to get away with.

[–] Luftruessel@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Stuff made here" has a video where he fools around with that idea. Worth checking out imo

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[–] sep@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would assume, you have a standard text. That you handwrite. Then scan, so that the 3d printer can write in your handwriting!

All that for nobody to be able to read my crappy handwriting ;)

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Its much more difficult than that to be actually believable. As u/Luftruessel said, theres a great video from “Stuff Made Here” where he goes deep inside the topic and tries to fool a graphologist.

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[–] Knusper@feddit.de 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is it writing German words with "ae" instead of the umlaut (ä)? That makes sense, if you're typing on a keyboard, but ChatGPT should be capable of outputting umlauts and it shouldn't be difficult either, to make that 3D printer place two dots above an "a"...

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe he is swiss, they have some weird quirks. Like they don't do the ß either I believe. Maybe they don't use Umlaute. I'd ask them, but I can't understand them when they talk. That is not even a joke.

[–] Macromelus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

We dont use ae as ä. We also use Umlauts :)

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only orthographic difference is not using ß.

There are more differences but they are in the vocabulary. The Swiss use a lot of French words. Velo instead of Fahrrad, Trottoir instead of Bürgersteig, Cheminée instead of Kamin, Porte-Monnaie instead of Brieftasche, Camion instead of Lastkraftwagen, and so on.

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[–] artvandelay@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The saddest part of this is you probably learned more setting this up than if you had done the homework. You learned how to use ai text, a 3d printer, set it all up, and produce a viable result.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my view, this is not sad. It's just that education needs to incorporate parts of these new technologies into it. Technology is the future if education still wants you to write with a pen on paper then they are being outdated pretty fast.

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[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Y'all silly. They already have machines that write stuff out for you with pens and stuff. And markers, too.

I have one! A Cricut. But there are more kinds out there.

[–] June@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was thinking about that, but the lines, kerning, and consistency would give it away. Unless you have some app that’ll fuck with all that a bit.

[–] SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] YourFavouriteNPC@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Stuff Made Here is an absolute treasure

[–] sp00nix@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

This was the exact video I was hoping it would be.

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[–] rambos@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Teachers must be stupid af to believe its hand writen, but ill pretend they are. Just drop some blood and sweat on first page so they feel uncofortable to ask anything

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

This one probably. I do remember this video of someone actually making one that a professional forgery expert flat out said was convincing enough that he would have believed it was handwriting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQO2XTP7QDw

[–] qyron 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So, first you need to learn how to set up the printer, then fetch the bot produced text, review (hopefully), load it to the printer, run a test to determine it every part is working, run the "print", review it...

I'd risk doing it yourself would be quicker

[–] elboyoloco@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (31 children)
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yeah but is it as fun?

[–] ollie@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

spend an hour writing or 10 hours failing to automate it

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[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hear me out:

Run a script remotely when you're teacher is giving your homework!

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 21 points 1 year ago

Pyramiden sind [?]auwerken
in Aegypten & Nordafrika.
Grabstaetten fr Pharaonen & Familien
Bekannteste Cheo...

Pyramids are [?] architectural works
in Egypt & North Africa.
Tombs for Pharaohs and [their] families.
The most famous Cheo...

The author replaced the missing Ä/ä in the stroke font with Ae/ae, which is only used in German in URLs, usernames and other places that don’t allow diacritics. However, the ü in für is still missing. This could only pass as handwritten notes at a glance even if the font replicates one’s handwriting perfectly. However, this is unlikely to be a real assignment for anyone over 12 years old (which I assume the author is because of the effort of repurposing a 3D printer and syncing up the lines) given that the answer is basically a Wikipedia page summary.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

If I were a teacher and saw that every duplicate handwritten letter looked very similar to the last few, I'd definitely either assume you have some form of OCD (or something of similar nature) or are using an "AI" chatbot and some writing tool to write for you and would probably wanna see you at some point to ask about it.

Only acception might be if a student uses one of those writing tools because of accessibility issues when it comes to writing.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

"As an AI language model, ..."

[–] snowadv@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I wrote my own software and used commercial plotter (from 90s - it is way faster than 3d printer) in order to achieve result that can make teacher believe that it was written. In my language it is required for letters to be connected when handwritten (my program does it), there are different variations for each letter that are stretched and rotated during generation (I used pen tablet in order to input them)

It was written mostly when I was in 10-11th grade (that's why the code is spaghetti) and I indeed wasted much more time than I would if I did my homework like a normal person

Btw here is repo: https://github.com/Snow4DV/3DWriter

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