Students are relying on AI so heavily that universities are being forced to fundamentally rethink how they grade their work.
England’s higher education regulator, the Office for Students, is warning universities that they may need to replace traditional take-home essays and open-book exams with supervised assessments that prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to do their work.
AI-detection tools are too unreliable to consistently determine whether students have used the technology, the OfS said in a report published Wednesday.
I don’t understand why they ever stopped to grade with supervised assessment. Before AI they could get someone else to do the work for them. I don’t get it. It’s such an obvious and simple solution to AI cheating.
People who cheat are always going to find a way, but there’s still value in making it less convenient. If nothing else, a person has to learn more about real-world maneuvering if forced to get creative with it.
Interesting concept: attempting to detect AI use in drafting academic assignment solutions, when the AI itself is trained on works published by the academically trained…
Please don’t tell me universities genuinely thought AI detection was going to pan out?!
The last decade makes me feel like we’re already living in an idiocratic dystopia on the brink of realising our great filter.
Everything from the rise of fascism, narcissism, dysmorphia and associated mental illnesses, to ignoring climate change, to systemic corruption and collusion, to everyone going all in on stochastic AI. This world is cooked. Our logic is corrupted. There is something fundamentally broken with the average humans brain.
How come no one in all the governments is thinking “we are destroying society and we will be fucked in 10 years”? I mean, it’s pretty obvious. I’m not a conspiratard but it feels like people in power want others to be really stupid.
Always has been.
