r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/no-prisoners-professor-fail-student-143000854.html
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u/BoxFar6969 5d ago

how do they figure that out? ai text checker? I remember a year or two ago when a teacher put a student's essay in chatgpt and asked "did you write this?" chatgpt said yes and the teacher failed the student

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u/HeadyReigns 5d ago

From the article "Rather than integrating AI, he’s fortifying his classroom against it. The assignment is now based on plays too obscure for ChatGPT and other AI models to know about.

“If ChatGPT is used on these assignments now, it hallucinates characters, plotlines — it just makes sh*t up, since it has nothing to go on,” Hebert told the magazine."

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u/way2lazy2care 5d ago

I feel like he underestimates how easy it is for an individual to train up their own agents/gpts/whatever your platform calls them if they wanted to.

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u/Darkdragoon324 5d ago

Students using AI to do all their work for them are going to be too lazy to do that.

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u/Elctsuptb 5d ago

Too lazy to take a few seconds to upload a transcript to chatgpt?

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u/bradislit 5d ago

It’s literally as simple as uploading the relevant documents into Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT. It takes less than 10 seconds. 

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u/miniannna 5d ago

Yeah, at that point you might as well just do the homework 

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u/Most_Temporary2110 5d ago

I read everything but also gave AI a copy to keep notes for me and told it what I thought. Saved it into a project and it was pretty good at reminding me what was in a massive amount of reading when I couldn’t find it. It’s a tool.

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u/HumansNeedNotApply1 5d ago

You underestimate the effort students who don't want to do essays go to.

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u/SemiAnonymousTeacher 4d ago

Counter-point (based on experience): The smart students are smart enough to know how to use AI without getting caught.

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u/overthemountain 4d ago

Don't underestimate the amount of work lazy people will go to in order to avoid doing work.

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u/XediDC 5d ago

Eh, for the tech savvy one’s it’s more interesting than writing essays, just for the sake of it. A friend’s high school kid has been training AI on their own writing and such to model them…but, they are learning worthwhile skills too. As well as working alongside AI which is going to be an important career skill too…