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There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide (www.businessinsider.com)

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There's no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide::AI detectors used by educators to detect use of ChatGPT don't work, says OpenAI.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you understand what definitions are in place for authorship, citation, and plagiarism in regards to academic honesty policies?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The policies, and more importantly, the pedagogy are out of date and basically irrelevant in an age where machines can and do create better work than the majority of university students. Teachers used to ban certain levels of calculator from their classrooms because it was considered 'cheating' (they still might). Those teacher represent a backwards approach towards preparing students for a changing world.

The future isn't writing essays independent of machine assistance just like the future of calculus isn't slide rulers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think a big challenge or gap here is that writing has a correlation to vocabulary and developing the ability to articulate. It pays off not just for the prose that you write, but your ability to speak and discuss and present ideas. I agree that ai is a tool we will likely be using more in the future. But education is in place to develop skills and knowledge. Does ai help or hinder that goal if a teachers job includes evaluating how much a student has learned and whether they can articulate that?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I don't fully agree with OP but I think we could probably do with adjusting some of them. Personally I think with current AI, if somebody composes something by making multiple AI prompts and selects the best result, they should get some kind of authorship because they used a tool to create something.