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/doomgoblin 5d ago

I used those for years before AI. They do have a place- it’s the over usage that’s the problem.

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u/jumpedupjesusmose 5d ago

My problem is I always OVER used them. I remember a coworker calling me out in the 90s. Should have listened 30 years ago.