‘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.‘
Article archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20251125225915/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-trap-to-catch-students-cheating-ai_uk_691f20d1e4b00ed8a94f4c01
Christ…
Then they whine on Reddit when they can’t get a job.
Yeah, those students deserve to fail.
I assume he taught what Marxism is in the class, yeah?
No, it was irrelevant to the class
This is university, not high school or college.
They should’ve checked it themselves, realised that it was ridiculous and either removed it, or at least asked the prof if that’s supposed to be there.
Well that’s kinda fucked then.
Maybe you need his class lmao. Re read the article and have a think about what it means.
So he fails people who are Marxist because they follow directions and have actually educated themselves on something?
It’s a history class ffs. We should be teaching Marxism anyway
I legitimately think that you need to work on reading comprehension or let yourself read things without just getting too pissed based on trigger phrases you decided on to think about what you read. He asked all the students who submitted Marxist papers about their perspectives and none of them could even explain what Marxism was. I implore you to step back and think through this rationally - how many US college freshmen have strong Marxist views and are knowledgeable and passionate enough about them to write a strong essay about how an event in American history fits within a Marxist perspective? I also invite you to consider how a professor who wants to “fail people who are marxist” would recognize Marxist language and rhetoric subtly inserted into an essay? Furthermore, THE INSTRUCTIONS TO WRITE FROM A MARXIST PERSPECTIVE WERE IN WHITE TEXT THE STUDENTS COULDN’T READ UNLESS THEY COPY AND PASTED THEM INTO A DIFFERENT TEXT FIELD! I don’t understand how you could supposedly read this article multiple times and not understand this crucial detail.
If you didn’t make it to your freshmen year without learning what Marxism is, you probably shouldn’t be in Uni
Yes, most educated US Americans learn about Marxism at some point in high school (or earlier)
The fuck are you yelling about. That doesn’t make sense. Obviously it could be read from the assignment paper. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be read by the students. Which, the article made very clear, it was read by the students.
A lot of this comment section does apparently lol
that was the trap.
I don’t get it. I try to see everything in life through Marxist and feminist lens.
". My hidden text asked them to write the paper “from a Marxist perspective”
Freshmen.
That’s a dangerous proof.
He could have said to write from a zagnoore brandle-frujt perspective. Some would have scanned the assignment, ignored the part they didn’t understand, and kept chooching right along. Many students would rather try to figure it out than sound stupid in class or risk the spotlight of social interaction.
Interrogating each of them on the material is the only safe way.
The Trojan worked because the students who read the assignment would not have seen the reference to Marxism. Only by copy pasting the text in to another field would that show up.
The article mentions that he gave them a chance to explain why they chose to write it from a Marxist perspective and none of the students even knew what Marxism was.
He gave students an out in the event they actually did write from a Marxist pov
You’re assuming the freshmen would recognize a reference to marxism and not ignore that part because they didn’t understand. It’s what inexperienced students do
He made it hidden text in the assignment, i.e im guessing he made the text the same color as the background. Only when one copied the text and pasted it as instructions for a prompt would it be seen. Hence it was a Trojan horse on the assignment where those not using ai blatantly would not find it.
I’m not assuming a damn thing. He literally made it impossible to see the reference to Marxism unless you copy pasted the text in to another field. Like you would do if you were feeding it to an AI. Think very small white font.
This ignores the entire premise of the experiment. The 39% were not interested in learning regardless of the consequences.
Honestly interrogating each one on the material would be best but costly. Some classes have 80 students and professors have more than one class.
Also rest of the article says he asked students objecting accusations to tell what Marxism is and they admitted afterwards.
Apparently chatgpt asked “are you sure you want marxist perspective” as topic is older and not that directly related to marxism. One said they picked yes because quote, unquote “it sounded smart.”
The idiom you’re looking for in your last sentence is quote, unquote
Don’t do this to me.
(Jokes aside thank you)
No shame at all, just wanted to let you know!
Yes, I read it. All of it.
He definitely caught a number of them, but he called it proof, it should NOT be treated as proof, an indicator at best. If it were proof he could just fail them all and not catch false positives.
Totally agree about the number of people to interview being expensive. But it is more adequate as proof.
What he didn’t do wasn’t wrong, but he can’t count on that to be a point to fail.
So you frequently wrote your papers from a Marxists perspective randomly when it had no relevance to the topic at hand? He hid the text by making it the same color as the background in the assignment so only when one copy and pasted the assignment or attached the file to their prompt would it be picked up. The only real false positives would be those staunchly Marxists students or someone using a screen reader. Which I think if you are inserting Marxism into random essays that are not relevant you probably are going to be bringing it up constantly in every setting you can and would also be able to explain it. It definitely is a reason to be failed on an assignment if he caught you with this.