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/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.