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In reply to the discussion: Goddamn it: Just found a student paper that was written by AI. [View all]NJCher
(35,620 posts)94. at the beginning of every class
it is standard operating procedure to have students do a writing sample. This is done in class and the sample is held by the instructor for the rest of the semester.
The sample is used to determine whether the student can stay in the class, but it is also used throughout the semester for other reasons--as a benchmark, for example. It is often used if the instructor suspects the student didn't write a particular paper.
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Very interesting. I have a feeling that going forward, it's going to be a case of cat and mouse...
Hekate
Mar 2023
#10
That's the part I don't get. How much effort to cheat vs. just doing the work?
Coventina
Mar 2023
#17
The students won't work hard to cheat. The AI developers will work hard to make cheating harder...
Silent3
Mar 2023
#91
A student wwould just have to modify the text and run it through the AI detectors
DBoon
Mar 2023
#111
Don't worry. ChaptGPT will get better and you'll never catch a student cheating again
SYFROYH
Mar 2023
#3
This. It also says the student thinks they don't actually need to learn the
Scrivener7
Mar 2023
#115
AI content at DU? Basically, next-level trolls and troll-farms. Question is, how do we detect it?
Hekate
Mar 2023
#16
A very low performing student turned in a paper that was way too sophisticated
Coventina
Mar 2023
#8
So do we just give up on teaching how to communicate in writing from here on out?
Coventina
Mar 2023
#13
Probably a good idea to have them turn in not just the final product, but intermediate work as well
Salviati
Mar 2023
#81
Better start teaching cursive first or use air gapped computers without spellcheck.
Prairie_Seagull
Mar 2023
#109
'satiety' is famously used in another very well-known poem, To a Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Celerity
Mar 2023
#59
Many years ago, when I was a freshman in college, a friend of mine got caught plagiarizing.
Midwestern Democrat
Mar 2023
#96
We had a guy in high school that would try and copy everyone else's homework ...
aggiesal
Mar 2023
#84
It would be interesting to run it through chatGPT and ask it to reduce the reading level
Renew Deal
Mar 2023
#66
Do you ever see a point where it will be accepted, similar to a calculator in math class?
Renew Deal
Mar 2023
#102
If they are able to answer questions about what they wrote, then I'd let it go.
eggplant
Mar 2023
#78
Well, reading a book is certainly A LOT easier than writing one - and the same goes for term papers.
Midwestern Democrat
Mar 2023
#97
Not exactly. In this case, the students input would just be "Write a paper about physics" for exampl
Oneironaut
Mar 2023
#108