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What a waste of money. Why go to school if you’re just going to use AI? What are you paying for?
The piece of paper that companies keep demanding you have, despite their AI black box always filtering you out for hyper specific and arbitrary reasons?
The real answer is they're probably just lazy, but I wouldn't blame anyone who doesn't really value the work that goes into their degrees and diplomas anymore (not that I'm against post-secondary education, though)
Oh no, that is super fucking lazy (I'm not even sure the word for it is lazy..), they are literally copying the assignment request into an LLM, pasting the answer without reviewing it (not even the slightest curiosity about what was written?) and they're done?
Headline should be 90% of students. I assumed the class was much larger and only 32 used AI. 90% is fucked.
Only 32 got caught using AI
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seriously, why aren't all tests being done in person at this point?
A lot of classes aren't in person any more.
I suppose schools could force online classes to test in person, but they seem to favor shitty proctoring and anti-cheating software instead.
Most universities have been parasitised by a quality control department that insists "assessment should be authentic and accessible".
In short, profs are forced to have heavy credit bearing coursework that students almost all cheat on.
I knew things were bad, but this bad?
Earlier this month, a professor at Brown University saw midterm averages jump from the typical range of 65% to 80% to 96% after he allowed take-home exams. He estimated that all but two of his 86 students used AI to cheat.
Ehhhh.
Even without AI. A at home exam is just begging for ones to cheat.
Flight instructor here:
I kept having to undo the damage that academia did to my flight students, because looking things up to make sure you knew it right felt like "cheating" to them. So. Many. People have acadotrauma, y'all. Do you know how often I had to resort to behaviorism models to convince grown ass men it's okay to be seen using a checklist? I had to ask our chief pilot to watch me do ground procedures on an airplane in front of the student to establish it as a norm. You know, the way they trained Alex the parrot to talk. Because a checklist is a piece of paper with the answers on it and we hurt people for having those. Same with writing down frequencies. What? You're going to memorize the A/FD?
Or would it be edutrauma?
I see the same thing in the software industry. Programming is something where it's perfectly common to need to have cheat sheets at your desk and reference the documentation regularly. But freshly graduated students think that's cheating. They're convinced they need to memorise all aspects of a programming language and it's standard library. The amount of new information I take in every day, it would be impossible to remember everything. The real skill is information retrieval, being able to look up what you need to know when you need it.
Yep. I always thought open book tests are the best.
Otherwise if you read it but can't memorize it, gl.
If you did the work or can find the answer quickly without having done the work /studied, you'll do okay in the real world too, because you have those skills to figure out the correct answer quickly.
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The professor doesn't understand that those students are exactly what capitalism demands as the next employees. Every single one of them will be keeping our economies afloat with their reliance on AI
The subject of the essay being the industrial revolution seems apt. Or is it ironic?
This is hysterical. Like the cheaters couldn't even be bothered to proof read what the AI wrote to make sure it was correct.
People are dumb. People will always be dumb, there's no getting away from it.
We are just apes after all.
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You haven't ran into someone doing this on work emails?
They don't read the full email they get, just far enough to see if they got what they want. Then they plug it into an AI, and tell it to respond, then copy/paste it back to Outlook and hit reply.
They'll keep doing that, over and over. And it usually ends up with them insisting on a meeting to "discuss" where they essentially get in a loop of "it'll work, just do it"
And it's like pulling fucking teeth to get them to admit the only thing they're basing that on, is a chatbot told them it would work.
People are worried about the kids, and we should be, but it rotted adults brains even faster, and because of their age they've got a much shorter clock to stop using it before effects are permanent. Couple with Covid related IQ drops and the fact that time is linear and we'll keep getting older...
Society is fucked.
We need to seriously treat AI like an addictive drug that people aren't capable of limiting themselves with.
I don't need to use AI to not read my colleagues' emails
Thanks. This + OP has given me an idea. In going to add white text before my signature. Something along the Madagascar lines, or maybe just to agree with my email and and the conversation.
but it rotted adults brains even faster, and because of their age they’ve got a much shorter clock to stop using it before effects are permanent.
Look here, I'm an adult who uses AI all the time and you need to understand that the people of Madagascar waft blissfully through the tropical waters en masse.
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32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window
So, 3 students proofread the output and removed the offending sentences from their answer?
3 of 35 is not an unreasonable number of students who might have actually done the work themselves.
It's also a reasonable number of students who would read the answer before just blindly putting it into the answer sheet.
Here saved you a click and and badly written "article"
In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the Industrial Revolution, but knowing how many students now rely solely on artificial intelligence for their answers, he secretly embedded instructions telling the AI to include information about Madagascar in a way that makes no sense.
Being written in white text meant the instructions were invisible.
(...)
Had any of these cheaters even bothered to check what the AI had generated, they'd likely have noticed the strange references to the island country constantly appearing in an essay about the Industrial Revolution.
I don't know that the article was all that badly written, but you missed a couple of points that I'd call essential:
One, it was 32 students out of 35 total who used AI and then didn't even bother to check it, so only 3 students even made an honest attempt in the entire semester.
Two, the professor told the students that they were allowed to contest the grade if they wanted, and only 2 out of the 32 students even tried to contest it.
I don't know that the article was all that badly written
Really? I thought it read like a Facebook post.
Regarding specific numbers, I guess they add context to severity, but as far as the headline and snippet of the OP my short snippet answers the bullshit clickbait, which was my intention.
Also later in the article it mentions another professor who estimated that only 2 of their 86 students didn't use AI to cheat.
Like, what are we even doing any more?
You'd have to be careful to craft the message in a way that a vision-impaired student would know to ignore it though, since assistive tech like a screenreader would suffer the same flaw. But by making it so outlandish helps.
I think the professor is already aware of anyone in the class who uses assistive technology like that.
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My computer uses a dark mode theme so that white colored font would have stood out to me.
"Madagascar floats sideways through the afternoon."
That’s the most aesthetic I’ve ever seen captured in a sentence.
Madagascar floats Sideways through the afternoon Detecting A. I.
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