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Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI (www.wired.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I knew plenty of kids in high school that paid other kids to do their homework.

I know because I was one of the kids getting paid.

AI is just replacing good, ~~honest~~ work with machines.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Good. Academia lost its way anyways

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Students? Even teachers are doing it...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Utterly unsurprising, given that very few students are actually interested in learning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

very few students are interested in what and how they're learning

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And nothing of value was produced.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

To be fair- that value didn't change much from pre ai.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

no way!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Someone posted to the class discussion form with the bit about being an ai bot still included.

I wish it was a joke.

I didn't do great in that class, but it was me getting 70% for not wanting to try and explain a mathematically concept in 500 words! They won't take that away from me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I still have issues with such restrictions. I mean, why 500 words if you can explain it in 100?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

To force elaboration while staying on point. Details are just as important to writing as conciseness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Then give marks for elaboration instead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had a student write me a chatgpt canned answer, prompt included.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

That's a good one. I once gave an assignment for students to write an original poem. One student submitted The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson and claimed it was his own. These were middle school kids so he didn't realize how famous the poem is. This shit has been happening forever. LLMs are another phase in the never-ending arms race between teachers and students who want to cheat.

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