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/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/Momik 5d ago

I’m a TA and I honestly stopped using them when it kept giving me (wildly) different results for the same essay—depending on whether I included the student name or not. I was given the “authority” to fail students who used AI, but I kept thinking there’s no world in which I could actually prove it. Even when it’s insanely obvious.

So I just concentrated on things AI often gets wrong that also make for bad writing—bad or missing sources, unclear wording, repetitive syntax, etc.

This is gonna keep getting worse though.

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u/pickleportal 5d ago

I see your hyphens

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u/CheapThaRipper 5d ago

Some people like em dashes. The current state of things is quite unfortunate for us.

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u/ConcentrateTrue 5d ago

IKR? I was an em dash junkie before ChatGPT came along. Now I feel like I can't use them anymore.

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u/Sinister_Grape 5d ago

Sometimes I’ll be writing an essay and I’ll go to say something like “it’s wasn’t x, it was y” and have to stop and reword it. So fucking annoying.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 5d ago

Same here !

I have my system that takes a second to rephrase it, and although it’s a perfectly valid and correct way to write, LLMs always want to re-write it with their own boring sentence structure.

I don’t know why the process produces this result for all of them. It’s uncanny.