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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: 0.2s | source
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hombre_fatal ◴[21 Oct 24 14:43 UTC] No.41904715[source]▶
I don't understand most of the comments here.

I couldn't cheat in high school because we couldn't use our phones during class. Not for worksheets nor quizzes and especially not exams whether they be multiple choice, oral, or essays.

Yet the top threads here act like we need a whole refactor of schooling, many people suggesting we rely on viva voce exams and proctored exams. What exactly do you think that's solving over a simple classroom scantron test where the teacher ensures people aren't on their phones?

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1. noodlesUK ◴[21 Oct 24 15:00 UTC] No.41904923[source]▶
Did your high school not have any kind of summative homework?

In many places, particularly in the U.S., there are few invigilated exams, and quite a lot of your overall grade will be comprised of coursework. This, combined with the inexorable advance of digitalisation of education has led to where we are now.

Certainly once you get to university level, there are projects which simply take too long to be done in the classroom, such as a dissertation or final report. These projects have always been vulnerable to commissioning rather than plagiarism, and you’d be appalled to realise how common it actually is even in higher prestige places. LLMs have simply lowered that bar to make it even more common.

This is a genuine problem, and people are more sophisticated cheaters than you might initially think.