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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: 0.001s | source | bottom
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prepend ◴[20 Oct 24 18:50 UTC] No.41897599[source]▶
My kids’ school added a new weapons scanner as kids walk in the door. It’s powered by “AI.” They trust the AI quite a bit.

However, the AI identifies the school issued Lenovo laptops as weapons. So every kid was flagged. Rather than stopping using such a stupid tool, they just have the kids remove their laptops before going through the scanner.

I expect not smart enough people are buying “AI” products and trusting them to do the things they want them to do, but don’t work.

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1. mazamats ◴[20 Oct 24 23:27 UTC] No.41899379[source]▶
I could see a student hollowing out the laptop and hiding a weapon inside to sneak it in if thats the case
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2. hawski ◴[21 Oct 24 06:02 UTC] No.41901092[source]▶
That is beyond silly. Unless students go naked they can have a weapon in a pocket.
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3. setopt ◴[21 Oct 24 06:13 UTC] No.41901147[source]▶
The point was that if the laptop is taken out and doesn’t go through the scanner, but the rest of the student has to go through the scanner, then the laptop is a great hiding place. Presumably that scanner can at least beep at a pocket knife.
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4. hawski ◴[21 Oct 24 06:41 UTC] No.41901300{3}[source]▶
Oh, indeed!

But if they are not otherwise checked it would be quite useless.

5. sumo89 ◴[21 Oct 24 08:33 UTC] No.41901928[source]▶
don't forget...natures pocket.
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