AI Cheating Is Getting Worse

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• PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry bro, if the homework requires more than 40 hours a week of study, cheating is no longer unethical.

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• RangerJosie@sffa.community ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they’re smart enough to cheat they’re smart enough to pass.

  Be real now. How much of that stuff do you all really use in your daily lives?

  Because the real world doesn’t care about rote memorization as long as the work gets done in my experience.

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  • Overzeetop@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m an engineer. I use all of it. I use it whether I’m writing technically correct and accurate forensic reviews or doing math in my head (or on paper) to analyze a condition in real time or checking a complex finite element model to ensure that there are no improper assumptions or invalid boundary conditions. AI/ML is really useful for some things, and deadly for others.

    Rote memorization may seem unnecessary, but a mental catalog - whether it be quotes, body parts and systems, equations of natural phenomena, or even manufactured parts and specifications - is the hallmark of someone who can work independently in a real time industry. It may not matter for some jobs, but it’s make or break in others.

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• SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am entirely certain that it’s the same amount of cheating as it always was and the only thing that changed is that AI is how they’re doing it.

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  • pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe. It is true that people who would have cheated in the past are now just using AI in addition to the previous means. But from my experience teaching, the number of students cheating is also increasing because of how prevalent AI has become and how easy it is to use it.

    AI has made cheating more frictionless, which means that a student who might not have say used Chegg (requires some effort) or copied a friend (requires social interaction) in the past, can now just open a textbox and get a solution without much effort. LLMs have made cheating much easier, quicker, and safer (people regularly get caught using Chegg or copying other people, AI cheating can be much harder to detect). It is a huge temptation where the [short-term] benefits can greatly dwarf the risks.

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  • gencha@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What exactly was the tool we cheated with in the past that was equivalent to LLMs? What is your certainty based on?

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    • SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Other people writing it for you and the openness with which I heard many other students discussing that they weren’t writing their own stuff.

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• istanbullu@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Colleges having a meltdown over AI reminds me of colleges having a meltdown over Wikipedia when wikipedia first came out.

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• Muffi@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe we need to teach them the kinds of things that AI can’t do, instead of the same old crap?

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