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Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

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mikeyinternews ◴[21 Oct 24 13:12 UTC] No.41903806[source]▶
One of my kid's teachers sent out a warning to students that all essays would be checked with AI detection software and the repercussions one would face if caught. A classmate did an AI check on the teacher's warning and it came back positive for having been AI-generated.
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youoy ◴[21 Oct 24 13:27 UTC] No.41903940[source]▶
While I understand the spirit of your message, you should not care about that.

"One of my kid's teachers set out a warning to students that all essays would be checked against the other students' essays to see if they are the same and the repercussions one would face if caught. A classmate did a Google search and found the questions of the essay as examples on a book."

One thing is perfectly valid, the other one is not.

Then of course, there are shades of gray. Using ChatGPT for some things is not copying and you can even say the kids are learning to use the tool, but if you use it for 95% of the essay, it is.

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1. hydrolox ◴[21 Oct 24 20:08 UTC] No.41908009[source]▶
I understand your point, but I would say that it is not particularly appropriate for a teacher to use AI (or plagiarize, to an extent) in this context. Taking questions from an existing bank, in my opinion, is different to AI generating your prompt/email/etc. What I mean is, students will NOT listen even more so if they find out how blatantly hypocritical a teacher is being (in the hypothetical situation that the teacher really did use AI)

This isn't a made up situation. Teachers at my school have used AI for essay prompts, test questions, etc and it spreads around and generally leads to the sentiment that "if the teacher is doing it, they can't in good faith tell me to not". Imagine if in math class the teacher , after just telling the students they can't use a calculator, types in a simple arithmetic expression into their calculator.