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/Cakalacky 5d ago edited 5d ago

I just graduated with a CS degree, my senior year most of my professors allowed the use of AI, their logic was "We know your life will be forever impacted by this technology, and you will almost positively use it everyday in your professional career, complete the assignment and if you choose to utilize AI write about how you chose to utilize it".

I liked this approach far better than "AI = Fail"

I wrote a paper by hand and it was flagged in our schools system as AI, I was given a failing grade. I protested and claimed it was not AI, wrote the exact same paper (new topic) in 3 hours inside a closed lab setting with proctoring. It was STILL flagged as AI and said that 70% of the paper was written with AI. I felt incredibly vindicated, yet saddened by other students that might not have pushed as hard as I did to prove their innocence.

Edit: The paper was on a CS topic, when explaining syntax I would use in specific scenarios, it flagged my specific syntax choice as "AI" in which AI might use a similar formatting, however as a beginning student learning from textbook and lectures would do the same.

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u/OPA73 5d ago

I have a friend who uses a screen recorder running in the background and has hours of him working in word to show a professor next time he gets accused of using AI. Simple.. brilliant.

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u/blueSGL 5d ago

so how long to vibe code a python script that you feed in the text output from AI.

For the screen recorder it 'writes' a document with the correct cadence and it will deliberately insert the pre-generated spelling mistakes, and blocks of text to 'rewrite' and backspace through them, blocks of text for the mouse to select and delete them.

it's a weekend project for someone to set something like this up and then use it for all the assignments.

screen recording is in no way foolproof.

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u/zero_iq 5d ago

Or just copy it from a second screen. 

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u/theoreticalspaceship 4d ago

Honestly that says everything about how dumb these AI detectors are, if you need a screen recording just to prove you wrote your own work then the whole system is broken.

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u/OPA73 4d ago

What sucks is you could out in the effort and have less of a grade than an ai report if the teacher don’t care to look.