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Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

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427 points JumpCrisscross | 3 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. Cthulhu_ ◴[21 Oct 24 08:44 UTC] No.41901988[source]▶
And yet, this fear is timeless; back when book printing was big, people were fearmongering that people would no longer memorize things but rely too much on books. But in hindsight it ended up becoming a force multiplier.

I mean I'm skeptical about AI as well and don't like it, but I can see it becoming a force multiplier itself.

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2. bigstrat2003 ◴[21 Oct 24 09:16 UTC] No.41902166[source]▶
> people were fearmongering that people would no longer memorize things but rely too much on books...

Posters here love to bring out this argument, but I think a major weakness is that those people wound up being right. People don't memorize things any more! I don't think it's fair to hold out as an example of fears which didn't come to pass, as they very much did come to pass.

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3. slidehero ◴[21 Oct 24 11:37 UTC] No.41903027[source]▶
>People don't memorize things any more

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and it made no difference.