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That's an insanely high proportion. I don't think I've ever cheated on an exam or assignment, so the concept seems kind of weird to me.
I wonder if some of the remaining people used AI but then reviewed the output and removed the weird stuff, or if they wrote it themselves.
The students cheating are only making the people with preAI degrees more desirable.
"What sets you apart from the others?"
There was still cheating but at least it was more effort than this.
Yeah back in my day, cheating meant getting a copy of last year's test and memorizing the answers. At least you still learned something!
What don't get is how they didn't see the "invisible" text when they were copying it to paste it into the AI. Any tool I've ever used to select and copy text highlights it in a way that would show the "invisible" part. Was the question just so long that they could easily miss it?
I love the story but I'm a little skeptical just because of this one detail.
There's a video in the article that shows it. He put the prompt at the end of a bullet point, but still in the middle of the block of text. Very easy to miss if you're selecting all.
Probably they did ctrl+a or just dragged the mouse all the way down without looking
I went to college in 90 and its kinda a wierd time as not to long before people would ask if you where going to college but by that time it was where you were going to college. So it was just as going to college was sorta expected. I too am blown away by that number of students but I think im thinking more of my major area where people genuinely (I think) were mostly motivated to learn about it and do it as a career. Myself I really did like the liberal arts education so was by and large equally avid in non majors classes. Thing is since then college has just become more and more this forgone conclusion and the pressure to be in a major that results in a career that pays over what one is interested in, I think is much higher. So I guess im not surprised. We really need people to be able to work and make enough to have a family on a single income without going to college (heck you can't even do that going to college now) or this stuff is just going to get worse.