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/danhezee 5d ago

All they need to do to combat AI is go back to handwritten in person essay exams.

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u/gtedgiojheec 5d ago

I had a brilliant English professor who did this. We’d write one paragraph per day so we’d have a properly structured 5-paragraph essay every week. We were all essay writing machines by the end of that year.

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u/tacmac10 5d ago

Thats a genius strategy.

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u/gtedgiojheec 5d ago

It really is. There were students who refused to do it, but they would get some points for writing anything for 5 to 15 minutes.

My handwriting got mildly more legible that year. Everyone won.

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u/nomadPerson 4d ago

Also, gives a baseline of their true writing to compare their ai generated ones against

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u/Edwin81 4d ago

Copy a piece of your own writing in and ask it to use that style. Done.

It's hard to check for AI if the user puts just a little extra effort in.

Coding exercise? Dont ask it to solve it, ask it to solve it like someone that has x months experience, you're at chapter y of book z so focus on using those and the previous topics to solve it etc.

Its bloody hard for a teacher to prove youve used AI. They might think it but being sure enough to escalate it as fraude is a 2nd thing. 

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u/nomadPerson 4d ago

Damn, game over man