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Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

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427 points JumpCrisscross | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 17:26 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jmugan ◴[20 Oct 24 18:47 UTC] No.41897583[source]▶
My daughter was accused of turning in an essay written by AI because the school software at her online school said so. Her mom watched her write the essay. I thought it was common knowledge that it was impossible to tell whether text was generated by AI. Evidently, the software vendors are either ignorant or are lying, and school administrators are believing them.
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add-sub-mul-div ◴[20 Oct 24 19:42 UTC] No.41897958[source]▶
Imagine how little common knowledge there will be one or two generations down the road after people decide they no longer need general thinking skills, just as they've already decided calculators free them from having to care about arithmetic skills.
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1. jampekka ◴[21 Oct 24 08:20 UTC] No.41901873[source]▶
Maybe not having to learn to write "properly" means more bandwidth for more general thinking?

At least not having to care about arithmetic leaves more time to care about mathematics.