Last week, OpenAI published tips for educators in a promotional blog post that shows how some teachers are using ChatGPT as an educational aid, along with suggested prompts to get started. In a related FAQ, they also officially admit what we already know: AI writing detectors don't work, despite frequently being used to punish students with false positives.
In a section of the FAQ titled "Do AI detectors work?", OpenAI writes, "In short, no. While some (including OpenAI) have released tools that purport to detect AI-generated content, none of these have proven to reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content."
In July, we covered in depth why AI writing detectors such as GPTZero don't work, with experts calling them "mostly snake oil."
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That same month, OpenAI discontinued its AI Classifier, which was an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text. It had an abysmal 26 percent accuracy rate.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 12 2023, @07:47PM (1 child)
I got out of ChemEng right before the enforced problem class where we would have sat in a room and worked chem eng problems as a class.
I would imagine it would be possible to have "enforced pair programming" in CS classes at a scheduled time as a "lab". We did that in middle and high school, never post-high school but it should be possible.
The "lab" concept is interesting, hard science has been doing that awhile and it should be possible to enforce a "lab" concept for humanities essay writing classes and similar.
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Wednesday September 13 2023, @02:20AM
The last time I took a science class we had a neat virtual lab to work with. I probably would've hated that aspect of science classes so much if I could get the relevant details when I needed them. I remember failing an assignment because I couldn't tell the fruit flies apart because they weren't labeled and I couldn't get the professor you explain what I was supposed to be looking for.