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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46057357
Ok, so not every single student does this. But I’ve heard tales of a lecturer who caught his student out. How did he slip? He copied and pasted the but that said ‘AI can make mistakes’ or whatever the copilot equivalent is 🙄


Fuck I remember 2 years ago when I was taking one of my uni classes it had this stupid weekly mini tests. So each wednesday there would be a 10minute 4 question test that was done on the website and would for some reason contribute 30% to your grade at the end.
And as AI was just becoming good at the time everyone (including me) used it to cheat on them. And mostly it was because these tests were impossible to complete on time.
Each test had a set of questions that would randomly assign 4 of to you. And these would all be multiple choice but they could be relatively easy theoretical ones or a bit more complex ones that included several calculation steps. The big issue is most of those more complex ones would take about 5 min to solve at normal pace and if you got unlucky you had to solve 4 of them. I think you can all see where this leads.
I asked a friend who did the same course a couple years before AI became widespread and he told me they cheated on them differently. A couple students each week would sacrifice themselves and speed through just to see rhe results and then share them with the others. The professors eventually figured that out and made it so you could only see your results 5-10 minutes after finishing the test (you only had a 10 minite window to start it anyway).
Back in my first year (2008) we had these mandatory online assignments for physics and calc (think it was springer or something). Some of us would group up to work through things which ended up making our study groups. One of my friends at the time used to do all of theirs in excel and upload them (I was in residence at the time and there was a gigantic peer to peer filesharing network on campus) for everyone to use, I know there were a ton of people who didn’t even touch the homework without them.
It’s definitely not a new thing for sure.
Wow that’s both fascinating and funny, thanks for sharing
Yeah and stupid. They were not really testing students’ knowledge because everybody had to cheat if they wanted any decemt results.