‘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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This refrain I keep hearing of "I don't use anything I learned in college" is an INSANE take. Unless you went to some fly-by-night for-profit scam college, you learned way more than you think, even if it didn't include some specific engineering technique. You mentioned social interaction, but critical thinking is the big one. We need to stop devaluing education-it's critical for our future. We can't dismiss it just because capitalist vultures are ruining it. We need to fight to make it what it should be.