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All you gotta do is prompt. (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 days ago by InevitableSwing@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

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[-] Big@hexbear.net 34 points 3 days ago

At this point, the only way to save higher learning is to go back to exclusively oral teaching.

Turns out Socrates was right all along.

[-] Inui@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A lot of professors I know are pivoting back to hand written proctored exams, oral presentations/q&s, etc because there's really no stopping the slop machine. A lot of professors are uncomfortable with doing something like reporting tons of students for cheating since you can't prove it easily, so that's their alternative.

Except one CS professor I know who failed 30% of his class on an exam, reported them all to student conduct, and sent the rest of the class a warning lol. He ain't having it.

[-] Blakey@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

The uni I attended is (depressingly) embracing LLMs and even they didn't stop in person exams...

[-] Inui@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

To some extent, you have to embrace it. Students are going to use it anyway and the institution isn't going to let you fail 50% of your class every semester. There are good ways and bad ways to do it though and some professors are assigning things that try to get people to reflect on their AI usage, like asking multiple LLMs a question and comparing/contrasting their answers to pick them apart. It's really wreaking havoc on online courses in particular though, which is unfortunate because although I have my criticisms of them, they're a big boon to working adults who want to further their education or change careers.