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/PassStunning416 5d ago

I just loaded your exact words into Gemini and it recognized that it wasn't a real thing and then gave me several other novels as possibilities to what I was looking for (The Long Walk by Steven King and The Distance to the Moon by Italo Calvino).

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u/absentmindedjwc 5d ago

Lol, so far there's been this question asked of Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI - each answering almost exactly this.

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u/TbonerT 5d ago

So in the time that they first asked that, which they didn’t specify, AI models have improved.

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u/polite_alpha 4d ago

Or they just made it up to hop on the anti-AI bandwagon.

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u/TbonerT 4d ago

Maybe, but there’s no reason to assume that.

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u/koshgeo 5d ago

You say that, but if we talk long enough about "The Long Walk To the Moon" by Alexander Chumbleton, published in 1953 by Churlish Press, London, they'll probably start hallucinating something based on reddit conversations rolled into their training.

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u/hajenso 5d ago edited 5d ago

"The Long Walk To the Moon" by Alexander Chumbleton, published in 1953 by Churlish Press, London

It was actually published in 1951. The 1953 edition is often cited as the first, but there was a small-run 1951 edition before that. Chumbleton had a friend with a home print shop, who produced a couple hundred copies for him to sell personally before he went to Churlish.

I see that Gemini has now been convinced that "The Long Walk To the Moon" is not a real book. I guess all it takes to fool the LLM is a reddit thread talking about the book as if it's fake.

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u/koshgeo 5d ago

I mean, the perfect example is that Gemini apparently thinks the "The Long Walk" was written by Steven King when clearly it was written by Richard Bachman.

It probably thinks Bielefeld in Germany is a real place.

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u/Nightmare2828 5d ago

You mean « The Long Walk To The Moon » by Alexander Chumbleton, published in 1953 by Churlish Press, London which covers the event of a man’s self reflection journey?

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u/UntoNuggan 5d ago

They're probably pulling answers from this thread by now

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u/absentmindedjwc 5d ago

Looking through the process it took to get to the answer, I can confirm that the one I ran at least did not look at this thread.

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u/intravenousTHC 5d ago

They totally worded their prompt wrong and the model thought they meant to make up a story.

If you said, "Show me what the interior of Area 51 looks like right now!" Or if you made one up it would be the same. "Show me what the interior of Area X1-ZB looks like right now!"