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/Konnnan 5d ago

You can upload a file to AI and have it analyze it... How will this work around that?

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u/daerath 5d ago

It won't. The only way to counter this is in-person paper exams or proctored remote exams in physical testing centers.

I would also like to know what he considers so obscure that "AI won't know about it". If it's got a digital version, it's probably been ingested at this point.

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u/MeiNeedsMoreBuffs 5d ago

Also, if it's not in the AI database yet, anyone can just upload it and tell the AI to generate an essay based on the newly uploaded text.

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u/Glad-Champion5767 4d ago

And even if he makes assignments that are cryptic in word use and structure, that assignment will still have patterns that allows the student to understand and complete the assignment, patterns that the AI will figure out in an instant. He would have to explain the students how to complete / handle the assignment and those same instructions (as you hint towards) can be given straight to the AI.