<< They keep coming up with weird “facts” (“Greek is actually a combination of four other languages) >>
Not as wrong as the author thinks. From Britannica.com:
"Greek language, Indo-European language spoken mostly in Greece. Its history can be divided into four phases: Ancient Greek, Koine, Byzantine Greek, and Modern Greek."
If I had to suggest where the “combination of four languages” idea came from, it would be from Homeric Greek (the language the Iliad and Odyssey were written down in). This was genuinely a complete mess, formed of a hodgepodge of different dialects.
From wikipedia:
“[Homeric Greek] is a literary dialect of Ancient Greek consisting mainly of an archaic form of Ionic, with some Aeolic forms, a few from Arcadocypriot, and a written form influenced by Attic.”
I’m not sure if this is a plausible explanation as I don’t have much experience using LLMs.
What happened was either the teacher is severely biased against ChatGPT and fabricated the fact to fit their narrative. Or ChatGPT gave the correct answer, but the student interpreted it wrong.
I do believe the students keep coming up with weird (correct) facts, and that this can be scary for a teacher who is stuck at a search bar.
Not as wrong as the author thinks. From Britannica.com:
"Greek language, Indo-European language spoken mostly in Greece. Its history can be divided into four phases: Ancient Greek, Koine, Byzantine Greek, and Modern Greek."