In January 2023, just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments. . . .
Still, while professors may think they are good at detecting AI-generated writing, studies have found they’re actually not. One, published in June 2024, used fake student profiles to slip 100 percent AI-generated work into professors’ grading piles at a U.K. university. The professors failed to flag 97 percent. It doesn’t help that since ChatGPT’s launch, AI’s capacity to write human-sounding essays has only gotten better. . . .
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Are You Ready for the AI University? [ Chronicle.com ]
ReplyDeleteIs Your Online Student a Bot? [ Chronicle.com ]
This is *such* a timesuck, and a headache-inducer. If students had developed the skills to judge whether AI-produced content met the basic requirements of the genre they're trying to produce (especially but not only for citation), I'm willing to concede that they'll probably be using these tools in their professional lives, so it's fine for them to start using them now. But the way to learn about a genre and how it works is to read widely in it, then produce at least a few examples yourself, from scratch (the same, I believe, is true of coding, which AI can do at least as well, perhaps better, than writing prose text). And students are trying to skip both the "read it yourself" and "write it yourself" steps, but still want credit (and don't want to be held responsible for false citations, nonsensical statements, contentless prose, etc., etc.)
ReplyDeleteThere is an interesting (to me) discussion about this article over on metafilter.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.metafilter.com/208682/Everyone-Is-Cheating-Their-Way-Through-College
In particular, people who needed accommodations in college, and those who felt dissuaded from seeking them are not happy at some of the solutions being offered (airgapped devices, handwritten tests among others).