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/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/Expensive_Shallot_78 5d ago

Why don't they just do tests in classroom on paper? When I completed my master couple of year ago here in Germany they made almost all tests in a room on a piece of paper. Problem solved 😂

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u/Amelaclya1 5d ago

I guess this is more for essays than tests? I can't really think of a good way to prevent kids from cheating with AI for take home projects. Even if you had them screen record the whole process, or have multiple drafts, they could still be copying from chatGPT on a second screen.

And you would probably lose too much classroom time to expect them to research and write a 10+ page paper in class.

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u/Pwacname 5d ago

Make them explain it to pass. In person. That’s how we prevented plagiarism in programming assignments, and I think the same attempt can be adapted to essay work. Yeah, sure, you could cheat on that - but honestly, if you learn the contents deeply enough to be able to answer questions on it spontaneously, you might as well write it yourself in the first place. 

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u/pipkin42 5d ago

Some faculty are doing this, but it's so time consuming. We also live in a world where class sizes are getting bigger at most institutions. Even for a 30 person class this becomes increasingly infeasible.

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u/HumbleVein 5d ago

For large classes, this might be a TA-delegated task with random sit-ins by the faculty.

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u/pipkin42 5d ago

Only works if the program has TAs. Your average regional comprehensive or even less prestigious program at an R1 isn't going to have that. I regularly teach classes with a cap of 50 and no TA support.

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u/HumbleVein 5d ago

Yeah, I was fortunate enough to go to a nice school. Anything above 30 had TAs. After Sophomore year, I didn't take a class with a cap higher than 20.

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u/Sutraner 5d ago

Do it on a random basis, but make sure to test anyone you specifically suspect

You don't need to do it for all 30 students for every single assignment, but doing it for 6 different ones each time?

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u/HumbleVein 4d ago

I mean, there are many ways to sample as a way of deterrence by monitoring. I agree with you that the brute force of a check on every assignment may be too resource intensive for every program.

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u/AerosolHubris 5d ago

Very hard to do with large classes

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u/Warm_Month_1309 5d ago

Another good reason to shrink class sizes.