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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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[–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly interrogating each one on the material would be best but costly. Some classes have 80 students and professors have more than one class.

Also rest of the article says he asked students objecting accusations to tell what Marxism is and they admitted afterwards.

Apparently chatgpt asked "are you sure you want marxist perspective" as topic is older and not that directly related to marxism. One said they picked yes because quote, unquote "it sounded smart."

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

    Also rest of the article says he asked students objecting accusations to tell what Marxism is and they admitted afterwards.

    Yes, I read it. All of it.

    He definitely caught a number of them, but he called it proof, it should NOT be treated as proof, an indicator at best. If it were proof he could just fail them all and not catch false positives.

    Totally agree about the number of people to interview being expensive. But it is more adequate as proof.

    What he didn't do wasn't wrong, but he can't count on that to be a point to fail.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    He definitely caught a number of them, but he called it proof, it should NOT be treated as proof, an indicator at best. If it were proof he could just fail them all and not catch false positives.

    So you frequently wrote your papers from a Marxists perspective randomly when it had no relevance to the topic at hand? He hid the text by making it the same color as the background in the assignment so only when one copy and pasted the assignment or attached the file to their prompt would it be picked up. The only real false positives would be those staunchly Marxists students or someone using a screen reader. Which I think if you are inserting Marxism into random essays that are not relevant you probably are going to be bringing it up constantly in every setting you can and would also be able to explain it. It definitely is a reason to be failed on an assignment if he caught you with this.

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