‘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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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    The only problem I have with the whole “Don’t be afraid to fail” thing, is that so much rides on the grades a student receives it makes it very difficult to not treat every assignment as a highly critical task which must be as close to perfect as possible.

    I get what you’re saying in general, but I don’t think most profs actually want their students to fail when they’re actively trying. I assume that the assignment where he asked them to “read and reflect” on an essay that it was probably something ungraded. I know there are some courses (especially large lecture ones where there could be hundreds of students in one class) where you don’t have a lot of signposts other than tests telling you how you’re doing in a class, but there really should be something outside graded assignments for you to get feedback on.