Beware graduates, students and authors. If you take a shortcut by using ChatGPT to do your writing for you, your professor will send your thesis or dissertation right back to you, and report you for plagiarism. Your name will be MUD throughout the academic world and you won’t be able to get a job. This process has already started happening. it’s bad enough to battle to get a job in the fractured country we live in today without having to face additional obstacles due to practising plagiarism.
What will happen if you over-use writing programmes like ChatGTP, your thesis or document will be rejected and you will be told to contact a professional proofreader/editor to correct it. you will first have to rewrite it and resubmit. Having already paid for the programme (if it’s a good one) you will then have to spend more money and will have wasted time by taking this route.
By all means use ChatGPT and other similar tools to improve and speed-up your writing, but remember! these types of AI programmes are only tools at this stage. You still have to use your creative writing skills to produce an acceptable piece of writing.
The DOOMSDAY PREDICTORS will tell you that robots will soon take over the world and make humans redundant. That may well happen in the future but we are not there yet.
Regarding plagiarism – if you have your document edited by a professional proofreader/editor there will be no problem with plagiarism because the proofreading will be done in depth, which means that there will be many changes and you will not be accused of plagiarism.
Back to the South African election which has dominated all our thoughts and actions for so long – now only 1 day away.
One thing is for sure – NO ONE REALLY KNOWS WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN!
The other huge question is – How are the presently undecided poll respondents (30% of the electorate) going to vote. This could have a crucial effect on the overall outcome of the election and future prospects for the country.
The other problem is that so many people in our country are still thinking of what life was like under Apartheid and still believe in the ANC as the political movement that liberated the country from the shackles of Apartheid and improved the lives of poorer people in the country who thanks to the ANC, now have a roof over their heads, running water and a toilet. What they fail to understand is that if we had removed the ANC much earlier, we would have still have remained a prosperous country and would have a vastly better life today.
To forecast the results of the election is an overwhelmingly difficult task; but if you take a look at what the pollsters and commentators have been saying over the past year you can get an idea. Here, for what it’s, worth is my wild guess at the result:
ANC – just over 40% of the vote – so they will no longer be able to misrule the country and will have to negotiate the outcome of which coalition partners will run the country and who will be president. Unfortunately, I believe that Ramaphosa will still be in charge but with much less power in Parliament.
Alternatively, he will be forced to resign from office by his criminal ANC comrades.
DA – +- 25%
EFF – I believe that they are going to fall below MK at about – 10%.
MK – +- 12%
Those are the major players.
The rest of the parties’ vote counts will be well below the top 4 contenders, but some will have some votes in Parliament and thus will have some say in how things are run from here on in a much more acceptable and more democratic way.
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