“I owe it all to Artificial Intelligence!”
First I must make a confession. Upon graduation from college, finding myself almost completely Nowhere in the job market, I signed up with a business called Creative Research. We wrote students’ papers for them. It was one of the few skills I’d picked up in school and college. All those years–yeah, I knew how to write a term paper. So I did it for money, till they passed a law against it. It wasn’t ethical, but it did sort of smack of the inevitable.
But now–!
“Turnitin” has scanned some 200 million papers written–well, supposedly written–by high school and college students: some were peer-reviewed , published scholastic writing (https://districtadministration.com/ai-writing-students-use-artificial-intelligence-papers/).
Well look at that! Fan my brow! Looks like the kids are gettin’ smarter by the day. Or else the unionized teachers have gotten real good at teachin’ ’em. Maybe both.
Call it what it is. They’re cheating.
Mine the defenseless public for money and keep Democrats in charge of everything. That’s really all there is to it. How “intelligent” is Artificial Intelligence?
Probably more intelligent than the students who depend on it to write their papers.
Pitiful. When I was in school, if anyone was caught cheating, there was severe punishment to follow.
Yeahbut, yeahbut! It makes unionized teachers look better!
Apparently, passing is the only goal, for some people, with learning having become a pesky side effect. 🙂
Like I said, those high grades make the teachers look good.
There is so much about the education system that is broken, it can only be fixed by one thing; the application of ethical behavior at the individual level, but I’m not holding my breath.
Schools weren’t perfect in my day, but I believe that most of the teachers had at least some standard of ethical behavior.
We call that “Christian reconstruction.” I have yet to hear a better idea.
Agreed.
It should go without saying having someone else do your work in school is morally wrong. But I know I really enjoy my spelling and grammar program that corrects my typos, offers better ways of saying what I trying to communicate, and corrects my spelling. But still have to reread what I have written because sometimes it overrides what I am saying, kind of like playing chess with a cheater.
Sounds like something I won’t try.