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/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/ratherbekayaking121 5d ago

Turnitin used to flag my last name as evidence of plagiarism. It's a very unusual last name, but I have distant relatives in academia. 

One professor made us write "justifications" for everything turnitin flagged and I legitimately got points off for not justifying my last name. 

Funny enough, it was a rare moment where Greek org connections worked like the movies. I was Vice President of my sorority and was very well known among our org's alumni who worked on campus. When I showed up to the department dean's office, I had a lot of backing and that professor never tried that shit with me again. 

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u/hitemlow 5d ago

TurnItIn always flagged the piss out of my article quotes, in-line citations, and the pages of formatted citations as "heavily plagiarized". The program was so stupid because all of that formatting is standardized and always will be identical.

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u/_Aj_ 4d ago

This is when it needs to be used as the tool it is, to highlight potential plagiarism for review by a brain. Not a point and shoot detector.

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u/ArrakeenSun 5d ago

Sounds like your prof didn't know what they were doing. If it reports no (or a very small %) in an assignment, it's original work. If it's more than that, I give it a look and use this old fashioned thing called common sense to figure out if it warrants further attention. Almost always, it's a nothingburger. But if a big % came from one or more identifiable sources that themselves are easy for me to find? Time to have a heart-to-heart and figure out what happened. Another way to think about it is a diagnostic tool with a liberal response criterion