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A professor used white font to hide instructions to throw off students using an AI chatbot to cheat on their midterm.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (10 children)

The midterm, by the way, was about the Industrial Revolution.

I get it, you spent a fortune on this class so you could have a job that will allow you to maybe retire someday. You don't even give a shit about this class or the material, you don't care about history and you just needed the credit. It has literally nothing to do with any of the jobs you might get in the future, if you learn nothing it won't make a difference. If you study and try your best you still might not actually get a good grade. The temptation to cheat would be hard to resist.

All AI has done is reveal a deeper problem with college - students aren't there to learn, they're there to be credentialed.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

In University I would hope most people in the class are there because they DO have an interest. On the other hand, if I could have cheated on organic chemistry like this, I probably would have.

On the other, other hand, we would copy eachothers work, but at least we'd change it enough so that it wouldn't be obvious. It's not that the new generation cheats more, it's that they're bad at it.

Also, we didn't write a lot of paragraphs of text in chemistry, so maybe my experience is skewed there too

[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

But would you have been able to? Ochem wouldn't give access to laptops and just be a paper and pencil exam.

External devices would be banned from the get go so attempting to use your phone or laptop would get you a 0 for cheating.

These professors seem pretty dumb allowing all sorts of open access to devices during exams that are completely open to view and run anything and get surprised people are using AI. Why does a history exam need a computer with open access anyways. This isn't a programming course.

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