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‘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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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Students would want to learn instead of doing less work if there were incentives to learn instead of just get out with a degree.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 16 points 2 months ago

It seems AI is putting more light on this problem of the academic system not really being learning oriented.
Not that it matters. There was already enough light on it and now it's just blinding.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are incentives to learn. The smartest kids do far better than the average kid.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe in school

In the real world, the luckiest people do the best.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no way, all studies show students who do well academically out preform their peers post education.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did it mention and account for the economic class of the students?

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sweet

Then it would account for how the students who are luckiest have more successful lives.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

yes but thats besides the point. The point is that people do better in life if they do well in school. Pointing to a tiny subset of people and saying "but these people also do well" doesnt change anything and I genuinely think you're intentionally trolling.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, lockdown era students all got their WFH piece of paper they can safely wipe their asses with. We have never had so many grad students fail out as this cohort. They literally got degrees with no practical knowledge, tehn thought tehy could cost to a career with the same work ethic.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Well they're still getting jobs and are instead just learning on the iob

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They just need to learn to make AI do it. Then they can do more than most.