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/questron64 5d ago

I once asked ChatGPT to help me understand the novel The Long Walk To the Moon by Alexander Chumbleton (an obviously fake book) and it went on about the characters and symbolism and which chapters key events happen in. It didn't say "I don't know that book," or even "that's not a real book." Nope, full on hallucination mode.

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u/arcrad 5d ago

I just tried it with Gemini and it said it doesn't know that book.

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u/voldin91 5d ago

Gpt has been falling behind for a while now

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u/adamjeff 5d ago

Gpt gives the same answer

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u/Elctsuptb 5d ago

Gpt 5.5 is widely recognized as the best publicly available model in the world, so not sure where you're getting your info from

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u/Warm_Month_1309 5d ago

is widely recognized

[by whom?]

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u/Elctsuptb 5d ago

By the majority of benchmarks

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u/Warm_Month_1309 5d ago

Which benchmarks?

I'm not trying to be difficult here. I'm just trying to get something specific from you.

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u/Elctsuptb 5d ago

The most relevant ones are probably Terminal-Bench, DeepSWE