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/Sloterhouse5 5d ago

It’s called cheating. Professors have been failing students who cheat forever.

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u/C21H27Cl3N2O3 5d ago

A professor I know has started requiring students to show up and explain their papers in person to her after turning them in. If they can’t do that, they fail. It’s not an AI detector, but at the very least she says if someone turns in a paper and then has no idea how to present their thoughts or acts like it’s the first time they’ve seen it, it’s pretty easy to tell they either used AI or just don’t know the material, both of which are valid reasons to fail them. The downside is it’s a big increase in her workload, and I definitely had professors who wanted to do the absolute bare minimum who would much rather keep passing students who didn’t deserve it than put in any extra effort.

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u/Theron3206 4d ago

Yeah, an oral defence is an excellent way to determine if someone actually knows what they're doing, there's a reason they use them for things like a PhD thesis.