‘But there is a difference between recognising AI use and proving its use. So I tried an experiment. … I received 122 paper submissions. Of those, the Trojan horse easily identified 33 AI-generated papers. I sent these stats to all the students and gave them the opportunity to admit to using AI before they were locked into failing the class. Another 14 outed themselves. In other words, nearly 39% of the submissions were at least partially written by AI.‘
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I fully agree. This was decades in the making. Good grades became the only important thing, we told students every day they won’t amount to anything if they don’t have straight As and then act surprised when they panic and use any tool to make it.
But we also leave them alone with a bunch of technology way too young which fosters a mentality of “Why do it myself when I’ve so many ways to have it done by a computer”.