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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.‘

Article archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20251125225915/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-trap-to-catch-students-cheating-ai_uk_691f20d1e4b00ed8a94f4c01

The article‘s author, Will Teague, with his cat, Persephone ’Dots‘ Teague
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[+] 45 points 10 months ago (16 children)
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  • [–] 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    This quote is particularly amusing because the author used en dashes where he should have used em dashes, while making a point about how no one uses em dashes.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    And you don’t put spaces around em or en dashes.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    It’s not a hard rule unless you’re using a hard format like Chicago, MLA, or APA format. In the US it’s common to not use spaces, but in the UK and some parts of Europe it’s common to use spaces for em dashes and en dashes if they are being used to denote parentheticals.

    Edit: I just noticed this article is hosted on HuffPost UK. If you go look at the US version of the site, it uses em dashes. In the UK it is becoming common to use en dashes in place of em dashes for parentheticals. Though even in the US version there are spaces, so it’s still not a clean comparison.

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  • [+] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I use the en dash – often mistaken for an em dash — quite regularly but I think it can be legitimately used to get a hunch, and he then got proof via hidden prompt injection and student confessions.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like I have to train myself out of using em dashes in my writing now to avoid being mistaken for AI, and it sucks.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I sometimes use different dilimiters [you know, like "(" {or also "[" or "(" (as they are used in programming -- since the em dash is essentially one of these, just with the added benefit of giving you a breath for thinking --)}].

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I use a dash all the fucking time - it proves a point and keeps the train of thought going

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