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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: 0.202s | source
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tipsytoad ◴[21 Oct 24 10:17 UTC] No.41902565[source]▶
I don’t think this hits at the heart of the issue? Even if we can catch AI text with 100% accuracy, any halfway decent student can rewrite it from scratch using o1s ideas in lieu of actually learning.

This is waay more common and just impossible to catch. The only students caught here are those that put no effort in at all

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1. lcnPylGDnU4H9OF ◴[21 Oct 24 17:05 UTC] No.41906105[source]▶
> rewrite it from scratch ... in lieu of actual learning

If one can "rewrite it from scratch" in a way that's actually coherent and gets facts correct, then they learned the material and can write an original paper.

> This is waay more common and just impossible to catch.

It seems a good thing that this is more common and, naturally, it would -- perhaps should, given the topic -- be impossible to catch someone cheating when they're not cheating.