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Re:Ask HN: Generate LLM hallucination to detect students che... by ahofmann on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @09:04AM (#44051029)
The main purpose of homework is that students uses their brain to repeat something, that they learned in school. If they don't use their brain, it doesn't stick. Using LLMs for homework, is the definition of cheating.
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Re:Ask HN: Generate LLM hallucination to detect students che... by OutOfHere on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @12:22PM (#44053125)
That is pre-algorithm thinking, and that style of thinking has logically been obsolete since home computers came along in the 1980s. If the purpose of homework then is to get the students to devise a high-level algorithm for a text problem, then such homework shouldn't be tied to grades, and grades shouldn't be tied to a school year. It should be a continuous process for everyone at their custom pace. The simpler motivation then for them to practice, to do the homework by themselves, is to ultimately pass a test on-site at a testing center. If they pass, they move forward. If they fail, they remain stuck in place. With AI available, one doesn't need school to learn the basics. School is not free - people like me have paid taxes to fund its inefficiency.
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Re:Ask HN: Generate LLM hallucination to detect students che... by lupusreal on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @12:29PM (#44053186)
> then such homework shouldn't be tied to grades

It was never supposed to be, except that people got the idea that students need coercement to actually do the homework (so that they would actually learn and not tank the teacher's statistics) and grading it was the "have a hammer, problem looks like a nail" solution that teachers found.

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