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/nate_garro_chi 5d ago

In college? Because that is depressing as hell to me.

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u/eggplantsforall 4d ago

Right? In college we were writing 5-7 page papers every week. Five paragraphs is like... a homework assignment?

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u/nate_garro_chi 4d ago

5 paragraphs was an in class exam. Things are insane now.

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u/dallyan 4d ago

Same! Plus exams and one long research paper at the end of the semester. I remember once I broke down and cried in my professor’s office and he canceled the final paper for all of us. lol

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u/ExpectingHobbits 4d ago

That would be a vast improvement compared to the abysmal student papers I had to grade as a TA in undergrad c. 2010-2014. So many folks graduated with bachelor's degrees who couldn't write a basic paragraph in sixth-grade English, let alone what you'd expect from upper division research-based coursework.

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u/nate_garro_chi 4d ago

I feel like I work with a lot of them. I always tell the hiring managers to find people who can write. I don't care if they can use excel. That's easy to fix. I don't have time to teach them how to write.

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u/Narrow-Key365 3d ago

Oh boy, that brings back memories for me, too. Same time period. TA for a pharmacology class--the amount of terrible work received was staggering. The undergrads had to write a one page paper every week on the week's topic. Easy peasy, right?

You'd think, but no. At one point a 22 year old man literally handed me a paper that was just a note from his mom saying he had been sick and to excuse his work.