Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

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427 points JumpCrisscross | 2 comments | 20 Oct 24 17:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.441s | source

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flappyeagle ◴[20 Oct 24 19:37 UTC] No.41897914[source]▶

Rather than flagging it as AI why don’t we flag if it’s good or not?

I work with people in their 30s That cannot write their way out of a hat. Who cares if the work is AI assisted or not. Most AI writing is super dry, formulaic and bad. The student doesn’t recognize this the give them a poor mark for having terrible style.

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1. kreyenborgi ◴[21 Oct 24 06:50 UTC] No.41901366[source]▶

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Traditional school work has rewarded exactly the formulaic dry ChatGPT language, while the free thinking, explorative and creative writing that humans excel at is at best ignored, more commonly marked down for irrelevant typos and lack of the expected structure and too much personality showing through.

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2. FirmwareBurner ◴[21 Oct 24 07:59 UTC] No.41901742[source]▶

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Because judging the quality of "free thinking" outside of STEM is incredibly biased and subjective on the person doing the judging and could even get you in trouble for wrong think (try debating the Israel vs Palestine issue and see), which is why many school systems have converged on standardized boiler plate slop that's easy to judge by people with average intellect and training, and most importantly, easy to game by students so that it's less discriminatory on race, religion and socio economic backgrounds.

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