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I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating (discuss.tchncs.de)
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‘But there is a difference between recognising AI use and proving its use. So I tried an experiment. … I received 122 paper submissions. Of those, the Trojan horse easily identified 33 AI-generated papers. I sent these stats to all the students and gave them the opportunity to admit to using AI before they were locked into failing the class. Another 14 outed themselves. In other words, nearly 39% of the submissions were at least partially written by AI.‘

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[+] 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 58 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    [...] Let me tell you why the Trojan horse worked. It is because students do not know what they do not know. My hidden text asked them to write the paper “from a Marxist perspective”. Since the events in the book had little to do with the later development of Marxism, I thought the resulting essay might raise a red flag with students, but it didn’t.

    But did he consider some may just be Lemmy users?

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  • [+] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh my god, you're right. The number of .ml users that "learned their theory from someone else" instead of reading source texts is mind-boggling. To be fair, I don't want to read 150yo texts to inform my own opinions, but moreso because I find them archaic in their reasoning, not because they're dull and pompous (they are).

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If you "learned your theory form someone else" you're somebody's goon, not a maxist.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    when ChatGPT read the prompt, it even directly asked if it should include Marxism, and they all said yes. As one student said to me, “I thought it sounded smart.”

    Yes.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    In that case, I think the student could easily prove their authenticity. Invite the student in and ask them to explain their understanding of and perspectives on several conflicting flavors of Marxism. Compare and contrast Leninism and Maoism. Or find other ways for them to demonstrate some understanding of Marxism. If the student really is just such a big Marx fan that they shoehorn the topic into every paper they can, it is reasonable to expect they have at least some surface-level understanding of Marxism, or at least to the level that would be necessary to write the paper they submitted.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    underrated comment.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Is it? It wasn't even 15 minutes old when you commented.

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