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Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

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427 points JumpCrisscross | 6 comments | 20 Oct 24 17:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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lelandfe ◴[20 Oct 24 18:13 UTC] No.41897309[source]▶
The challenging thing is, cheating students also say they're being falsely accused. Tough times in academia right now. Cheating became free, simple, and ubiquitous overnight. Cheating services built on top of ChatGPT advertise to college students; Chrome extensions exist that just solve your homework for you.
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1. borski ◴[20 Oct 24 19:07 UTC] No.41897718[source]▶
I don’t know how to break this to you, but cheating was always free, simple, and ubiquitous. Sure, ChatGPT wouldn’t write your paper; but your buddy who needed his math problem solved would. Or find a paper on countless sites on the Internet.
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2. rfrey ◴[21 Oct 24 05:17 UTC] No.41900883[source]▶
That's just not so. Most profs were in school years before the internet was ubiquitous. And asking a friend to do your work for you is simple, but far from free.
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3. rahimnathwani ◴[21 Oct 24 05:18 UTC] No.41900886[source]▶
It wasn't always free. Look at Chegg's revenue trend since ChatGPT came out.
4. crummy ◴[21 Oct 24 06:32 UTC] No.41901230[source]▶
That wasn't free; people would charge money to write essays, and essays found online would be detected as such.
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5. anshumankmr ◴[21 Oct 24 08:09 UTC] No.41901805[source]▶
Free -> You would owe them a favour, or some "excessive flattery". Maybe money (never had to do that myself)
6. borski ◴[21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC] No.41908072[source]▶
> essays found online would be detected as such

Uh huh. Except for the very very very high frequency with which they weren't.

Also, people traded favors. I'll grant you that's not technically "free," but it may as well have been.