‘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

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      14·
      4 hours ago

      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 INSTRUCTIONS TO WRITE FROM A MARXIST PERSPECTIVE WERE IN WHITE TEXT THE STUDENTS COULDN’T READ

      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.

      • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 hours ago

        To be brief, I inserted hidden text into an assignment’s directions that the students couldn’t see but that ChatGPT can.

        • quick_snail@feddit.nl
          13·
          4 hours ago

          Yeah, I read that. And I read nothing that described how that’s possible. So, no, obviously the students could see it.

          That claim makes no sense.

          • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
            21·
            3 hours ago

            I think you may legit need adult education classes or something. I literally explained how it works in my last comment.