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A professor used white font to hide instructions to throw off students using an AI chatbot to cheat on their midterm.

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 3 hours ago

Imagine....they didn't. Even. Read it.

They deserve the failure grade

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 31 points 4 hours ago

That's why university evaluations should be always in pen and paper.

this is just unacceptable, those students should be just expelled without mercy IMO.

[-] onnekas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 hour ago

Or at least give students computers that have restricted or no access to the internet? Even before LLMs having access to the internet would have been a huge opportunity to cheat. At least in most subjects.

Also, what happened to teachers/supervisors walking around and checking if the students cheat? Back when I went to school we also cheated with cheat sheets or exchanging answers but it was always risky because getting busted meant failing the test (or worse).

Letting students use the internet unrestrictedly would be like the teacher leaving the room and letting us unsupervised for the duration of the test back in my days.

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 points 57 minutes ago

could be... they made me programa python on paper.

for introduction to programming, basically you had to try to run the program on your head lmao.

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[-] soratoyuki@piefed.zip 29 points 4 hours ago

Are cheating and plagiarism no longer grounds for immediate expulsion...?

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Universities don't teach students out of a sense of duty and honor.

Students are their funding. Failing these 32 students could cost the school millions.

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 hours ago

The upper management of high schools are generally the kinda people who'd say "it's not cheating, it's just a tool"

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

My experience with high school is that they would want you to cheat so the school's numbers look good. The consequences of No Child Left Behind will be felt for a long time.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 24 points 4 hours ago

32 out of 35.

That tracks. I hate over 90% of people

[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Good on the three people who wasn't caught, either because the don't use AI or because they at least read the question and the llm output. And gold star if any of them noticed the white text but didn't tell the rest of the students!

[-] sanitation@lemmy.today 9 points 3 hours ago

Wow this gen is pathetic. 0 tech literacy

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

been that way for almost two decades.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Since smart phones and Chromebooks really.

[-] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

I mean, if the AI never explains to them what cheating is, can they even be blamed?

This all sounds like no one is holding the students accountable at all, which means they're not being educated, they're being babysat.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago

which means they’re not being educated

On the contrary. They got the lesson loud and clear: if you cheat your way through life and you get caught, if you're loaded, there are no consequences.

[-] mynameisbob@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 hours ago

Lazy shits.... good. It means the teacher cares. Lucky

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 8 hours ago

Gibson shared some of the most examples in a follow-up video.

The most examply of examples, presumable?

If you're just rehashing someone else's video for your "article" can't you at least check your language?

[-] Janx@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago

They're the examplest!

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 25 points 8 hours ago

At least you know it was written by a human 🙂 I honestly welcome dumb spelling and grammar mistakes nowadays - and I never thought I'd ever say that - as a sign that I'm probably not reading slop.

[-] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Soon the slop will just start dropping words and making typos because it’s learned that’s what we prefer.

[-] Tetragrade@leminal.space 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yroure absolooply write.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Yeah I too believe this will happen some day. The key to spreading AI seems to be tricking people into interacting with it.

But for now, it seems LLMs are still totally focused on talking like marketdroids or salesmen you wouldn't lend your wallet to.

[-] kahoodd@reddthat.com 17 points 8 hours ago

Our professor did the same thing last year. There was this MIPS assembly tasks and he added extra info there lol

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[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Try 386 real-mode / protected mode some day.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

I have always liked the idea of assembly languages being able to program so close to machine speed.

But working with assembly has always felt like trying to build a mansion with what was left over after several Category 5 hurricanes flattened an area… and with zero power tools and machinery, to boot. Just hand tools and no supplies except that which you can salvage.

[-] onnekas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

I get the frustration. However, the satisfaction to build something this way weighed always bigger when the project was completed and working. At least for me.

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