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If I used a calculator on a maths test I should only be penalised if the rules stated no calculators.
LLMs are certainly trained without consent, but they exist to spot common patterns. It's only likely to plagiarise if that text is also similar to lots of other text.
In fact, the academic practice of references and exact quotes has actually increased the tendency of statistical models to "plagiarise".
LLM will continue to be a useful academic tool. We just have to learn how best to incorporate them into our testing.
After reading that the exam rules basically said not to use chatgpt or similar, I completely agree.
It's not really a calculator because it gives different answers. Newer moldels can give attribution (e.g. bing copilot).
My opinion is that LLMs are not going to go away. Testing needs to adapt to focus on the human element. Marks are no longer lost for bad handwriting.
Mostly Agreed. I think the "in your own words" part will be debated strongly over the next few years. Will proof of writing your own prompt be sufficient?
And what if you had an app on your phone that let you just take a picture of the question, and write out the answer it gave you? A calculator still requires that you know what to input, and at the level of math where a calculator really is just easy mode, it absolutely would specifically prohibit them.
At college level, the question setter should ensure they are testing something where this is not possible.
Do you think you should be penalised if you got ChatGPT to sit the math test for you?
No, you'd be penalising yourself (except if you got the wolfram alpha plugin working).
Professors should be setting exams that chatgpt can't hope to solve.