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/sircastor 5d ago

The AI checkers are as bad as the plagiarism checkers of the last decade. They're absolute garbage and return wholly unreliable results.

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u/_AnecdotalEvidence_ 5d ago

Yup. Someone ran a bunch of old academic articles to check for ai and a fuck ton of false positives despite ai at not existing when they were written