‘But there is a difference between recognising AI use and proving its use. So I tried an experiment. … I received 122 paper submissions. Of those, the Trojan horse easily identified 33 AI-generated papers. I sent these stats to all the students and gave them the opportunity to admit to using AI before they were locked into failing the class. Another 14 outed themselves. In other words, nearly 39% of the submissions were at least partially written by AI.‘
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Distillation:
The only problem I have with the whole "Don't be afraid to fail" thing, is that so much rides on the grades a student receives it makes it very difficult to not treat every assignment as a highly critical task which must be as close to perfect as possible. I totally agree with this professor and I believe he did the right thing by the students. The problem is the system itself.
Those who are going to outsource their work are likely to always outsource their work or take the path of least resistance. You can't moral lesson or embarrass that away, usually. But the rest of the class seems to have learned a valuable lesson, or at least learned how to cheat better.
Regardless, we need to stop having everything boil down to the grades. There's good reasons grades are important, but there are even more that are detrimental. I don't know the answer, I just know the system is broken. Maybe it's just capitalism that's broken.
Society: "don't be afraid to fail!"
Also society: actively punishes failure with intricate systems such as admissions, CV screening, and increasing fewer safety nets
Yeah. Afraid to fail is bullshit, just like a college degree has become bullshit. Right down to actually needing to take prerequisite base classes to get your degree in something. Almost no one goes to college because they have a general thirst for knowledge. They go so they can get a job, or because mommy and daddy told them to go.
Listening to a guy talk in a 200 person class you're paying six figures to attend while in the age of the internet is stupid.
My undergraduate school didn't assign grades below a C. If you did piss-poorly, the class just didn't show up on your transcript. This encouraged me to take classes I might otherwise have avoided, if I was worried about my GPA.
I agree, the biggest thing that stood out to me here is that they were afraid to fail. If students were focused on creating the work that appeals to them, rather than just the work that will get the highest grade, think of the creativity that could be explored. Instead student are just focused on saying the "right answers" and dont get to think critically about the material. Sad
And it's ironic because once I let that go my grades improved. Professors wanted me to think for myself and do something weird, but only when I thought for myself.
The most ironic part of this is, if those kids did understand the basics of Marxism, they'd be able to see this much more clearly.
I dunno... What if a bunch of students got together, seized a data center, then used the AI hardware inside to generate their papers on Marxism?
The Proletarians have nothing to lose except their ~~chains~~ subscriptions!