Did You Use This AI-Detection Tool? The Results May Be Bogus
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As schools grapple with how to spot AI in students' work, the FTC cracks down on an AI content detector that promised 98% accuracy but was only right 53% of the time.
      • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        9 months ago

        I asked Chatty for a TL;DR:

        Western fear of AI comes from a fascist obsession with “owning” ideas. Using AI isn’t a big deal — if students can “cheat,” it’s because courses are badly designed, not because students are inherently dishonest. Most students don’t cheat; the narrative that they do is exaggerated to justify punishing them unfairly. Academia exploits students, charging massive fees while offering poor educational value and using dishonesty accusations to control them. Education should be free and empowering, not a tool for gatekeeping and oppression. The current system betrays the purpose of education and contributes to larger societal decline.

        I think you went a bit too far. Most of this is also only accurate for the US.

      • WolframViper@lemmy.orgEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        self-reported rates of cheating remain at a constant 25-35% of the student body over large periods of time.

        I’ve tried for hours, but I can’t figure out where you got these numbers. I can mostly find sources implying that far more people admit to engaging in cheating, not to mention sources which imply more people engage in cheating than those who admit to it, and sources that imply that the figures for cheating vary based on many factors even within places of learning, and vary based on what kind of cheating you’re talking about. Perhaps I’m just in a filter bubble. Can you tell me where you got these numbers?