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[–] [email protected] 58 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

I feel like one of the more important things to take away from this is the wildly different degrees to which various students use ai. Yes, 90% may use it, but there is a huge difference between "check following paper for grammar errors: ..." and "write me a paper on the ethics of generative AI," though an argument could be made that both are cheating. But there are things like "explain Taylor series to me in an intuitive way." Like someone else here pointed out, a 1-2 minute conversation would be a very easy way for professors to find people who cheated. There seems to be a more common view (I see it a LOT on Lemmy) that all AI is completely evil and anything with a neural network is made by Satan. Nuance exists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

This. Especially in the humanities, the essay is the preferred form of assessment. I don't have a birds eye view of all colleges, but I know that some of those courses should not have had essay exams. It's as if teachers forget that other forms of examination exist.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Nuance?! On THE INTERNET?!

ABSURD!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'd appreciate calls for nuance more if most of the time the people doing it weren't just excusing hypocrisy and crimes against humanity.