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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: 0.001s | source
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ameister14 ◴[20 Oct 24 18:48 UTC] No.41897589[source]▶
The article mentions 'responsible' grammarly usage, which I think is an oxymoron in an undergraduate or high school setting. Undergrad and high school is where you learn to write coherently. Grammarly is a tool that actively works against that goal because it doesn't train students to fix the grammatical mistakes, it just fixes it for them and they become steadily worse (and less detail oriented) writers.

I have absolutely no problem using it in a more advanced field where the basics are already done and the focus is on research, for example, but at lower levels I'd likely consider it dishonest.

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borski ◴[20 Oct 24 19:13 UTC] No.41897755[source]▶
My wife is dyslexic; grammarly makes suggestions, but it doesn’t fix it for her. Perhaps that’s a feature she doesn’t have turned on?

She loves it. It doesn’t cause her to be any less attentive to her writing; it just makes it possible to write.

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1. zelphirkalt ◴[21 Oct 24 09:35 UTC] No.41902285[source]▶
An alternative idea could be to use some software that does speech to text. Not sure there are any easy to setup local options. I tried one a while ago, but not really investing much time into it, like some people do, who program using such a setup. The result was very underwhelming. Punctuation worked badly and capitalization of words also was non-existent, which of course would be a no-go for writing research papers.

So if anyone knows a good tool, that is flexible enough to support proper writing and able to run locally on a machine, hints appreciated.