Re:Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI
by jimbokun on Friday April 25, 2025 @03:11PM
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Yes, but "no devices allowed sitting exams" address all of the ChatGPT cheating concerns.
But that does nothing for homework or long term projects where you can't control the student's physical location for the duration of the work.
You could do a detailed interview after the work is completed, to verify the student actually understands the work they supposedly produced. But that adds to the time spent between instructors and students making it harder to scale classes to large sizes. Which may not be a completely bad thing.
Re:Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI
by netdevphoenix on Monday April 28, 2025 @06:10AM
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> Which may not be a completely bad thing.
It is for those who manage those educational establishments. And should they fall as a result of cheating directly or indirectly, the adjacent economies will fall or be existentially damaged. The repercussions of all this are not trivial.
Worse yet many educators are not being supported by their administration since enrollments are falling and the admin wants to keep the dollars coming regardless of if the students are learning.
It's worse than just copying Wikipedia because plagarism detectors aren't as effective and may never be.
It's an arms race and right now AI cheating has structural advantages that will take time to remove.