We are shocked, shocked, that students at Cape Coral High School, Florida–supposedly a school for stellar students–have been accused of having robots write their essays (https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/chatgpt-cheating-scandal-erupts-at-florida-high-school/).
Ah, memories! When I graduated from college in 1971, with no desire to sit or stand in classrooms for the rest of my life, I soon discovered that the only damned thing I’d learned how to do was to write term papers. There was no place for me in the labor market. But then someone came along offering, for a fee, to write college students’ term papers for them. I got a job doing that, and prospered–until killjoys in the legislature banned it.
Well, this is the same thing, isn’t it?
“Educators” are scandalized. Pardon me for laughing. How can any leftid fresh out of a teachers’ college possibly tell right from wrong? But this ChatGPT cheating scandal” involving “the fastest-growing app in history” (zzzzzz….) is now going to be fraught with “potentially life-altering consequences” (cue beating drums of doom).
Don’t make me laugh. They steal elections, sterilize children, abort babies–and they’re scandalized by academic cheating??? In the age of Hunter Biden, they’re distressed by bogus term papers?
Yes, we do need revival! The current state of our culture is disgusting! Bring us back to our senses, O God! Bring us back to you! In Jesus’ name, Amen.
I’m hoping someone will build an app to detect AI-written papers, just as they did to detect plagiarism from online sources. We were using one of those anti-plagiarism programs when I was still teaching, and it worked quite well. The only thing that stymied the program was plagiarism from a book that hadn’t been uploaded to or extensively quoted on the web. But most of the would-be cheaters were too lazy to go to the library, so it didn’t matter too much — and sometimes a professor would recognize material from a book he or she was familiar with. I was on the Committee On Academic Misconduct (COAM) for a number of years, and we had one case in which the idiot student actually plagiarized from his professor’s book without noticing. The professor noticed. At the student’s hearing, those of us on the hearing panel had a hard time keeping a straight face.
LOL! I was just about to ask you if you ever found one of your own books plagiarized… I’d love to hear a student try to wriggle out of that. “By merest coincidence, we used exactly the same words to express exactly the same thought. You can’t flunk me without flunking yourself!” (Yeah, that would work.)
What ever happened to Cheaters Never Prosper? When I went back to the University of Arkansas in 2012 to get a BA Degree the penalty for plagiarism was expulsion.
If the prof or the instructor is only going through the motions, it’s hard to get caught cheating. I’ve met teachers who say they don’t care if their students cheat.
BTW, “Cheaters Never Prosper” most definitely does not apply to our elections.
Knew that this was going to happen sooner or later
Happened almost instantaneously.
Yes