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Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI (www.theguardian.com)

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Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal.

A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students. That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.

Figures up to May suggest that number will increase again this year to about 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students – but recorded cases represent only the tip of the iceberg, according to experts.

The data highlights a rapidly evolving challenge for universities: trying to adapt assessment methods to the advent of technologies such as ChatGPT and other AI-powered writing tools.

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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Three magic words - "Open Note Exam"

Students prep their own notes (usually limited to "X pages"), take them into the exam, gets to use them for answering questions.

Tests application and understanding over recall. If students AI their notes, they will be useless.

Been running my exams as open note for 3 years now - so far so good. Students are happy, I don't have to worry about cheating, and the university remains permanently angry because they want everything to be coursework so everyone gets an AI A ^_^

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Maybe we need a new way to approach school. I don't think I agree with turning education into a competition where the difficulty is curved towards the most competitive creating a system that became so difficult that students need to edge each other out any way they can.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I guess what I don’t understand is what changed? Is everything homework now? When I was in school, even college, a significant percentage of learning was in class work, pop quizzes, and weekly closed book tests. How are these kids using LLMs so much for class if a large portion of the work is still in the classroom? Or is that just not the case anymore? It’s not like ChatGPT can handwrite an essay in pencil or give an in person presentation (yet).

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

University was always guided self-learning, at least in the UK. The lecturers are not teachers. The provide and explain material, but they're not there to hand-hold you through it.

University education is very different to what goes on at younger ages. It has to be when a class is 300 rather than 30 people.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

WTF? 300? There were barely 350 people in my graduating class of high school and that isn’t a small class for where I am from. The largest class size at my college was maybe 60. No wonder people use LLMs. Like, that’s just called an auditorium at that point, how could you even ask a question? Self-guided isn’t supposed to mean “solo”.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago

There'd be smaller tutorial sessions. I'd have a once a week 5 on 1 session with my tutor for an hour. Lab sessions might be 30-40 people. Specialist courses would be 100 people.

...but yes, lectures were 300+ people for the core subjects. Generally you and your peers would work together on making sense of it all. You'd find that some people understood some subjects better than others and you'd help each other out.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You can ask questions in auditorium classes.

The 300+ student courses typically were high volume courses like intro or freshman courses.

Second year cuts down significantly in class size, but also depends on the subject.

3rd and 4th year courses, in my experience, were 30-50 students

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

You can ask questions in auditorium classes.

I am going to be honest; I don’t believe you. I genuinely don’t believe that in a class with more people than minutes in the session that a person could legitimately have time to interact with the professor.

The 60 person class I referred to was a required lecture portion freshman science class with a smaller lab portion. That we could ask questions in the lab was the only reason 60 people was okay in the lecture and even then the professor said he felt it was too many people.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

Your disbelief is strange.

People occasionally ask questions in lectures. Anything they are confused about gets covered off in tutorials later. Lecturers and tutors both have office hours where further questions are asked.

If a student has learning difficulties or special requirements there is pastoral care available for that.

It's really not mysterious.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That’s fine if you don’t, but you can ask questions.

They even have these clickers that allow the professor to ask “snap questions” with multiple choice answers so they can check understanding

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

I can’t believe people go into debt for that experience. I would be livid.

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[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Actually caught, or caught with a "ai detection" software?

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 38 points 1 day ago

"Read this document. Was it made with Ai?"

"Yes, it sure was! Great catch!"

"You're wrong, I just wrote it myself 15 minutes ago."

"Teeheehee oopsie! Silly me! I'll try to do better next time then! Is there anything else I can help with?"

[–] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually caught. That's why it's tip of the iceberg, all the cases that were not caught.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The article does not state that. It does, however, mention that AI detection tools were used, and that they failed to detect AI writing 90 something % of the time. It seems extremely likely they used ai detection software.

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Surprise motherfuckers. Maybe don't give grant money to LLM snakeoil fuckers, and maybe don't allow mass for-profit copyright violations.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 day ago

And thats just the ones that were stupid enough to get caught realistically I think this is more like 5% instead of 0.5%

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

we're doomed

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

We are indeed. Not looking forward to my old age, where doctors, accountants, and engineers cheated their way into being qualified by using a glorified autocorrect.

[–] confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

In some regard I don’t think it should be considered cheating. Don’t beat me up yet, I’m old and think AI sucks at most things.

AI typically outputs crap. So why does this use of a new and widely available tech get called out differently?

Using Google (in the don’t be evil timeframe) wasn’t cheating when open book was permitted. Using the text book was cheating on a closed book test. In some cases using a calculator was cheating.

Is it cheating if you write a paper completely on your own and use spell check and grammar check within word? What if a grammarly type extension is used? It’s a slippery slope that advances with technology.

I remember testing and assignments that were designed to make it harder to cheat, show your work, for math type approaches. Quizzes and short essays that make demonstration of the subject matter necessary.

Why doesn’t the education environment adapt to this? For writing assignments, maybe they need to be submitted with revision history so the teacher can see it wasn’t all done in one go via an LLM.

The quick answer responses are somewhat like using Wikipedia for a school paper. Don’t site Wikipedia and don’t use the generated text for anything but a base understanding of the topic. Now go use all the sources these provided, to actually do the assignment.

[–] rescue_toaster@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Chatgpt output isn't crap anymore. I teach introductory physics at a university and require fully written out homework, showing math steps, to problems that I've written. I wrote my own homework many years ago when chegg blew up and all major textbook problems were on chegg.

Just two years ago, chatgpt wasn't so great at intro physics and math. It's pretty good now, and shows all the necessary steps to get the correct answer.

I do not grade my homework on correctness. Students only need to show me effort that they honestly attempted each problem for full credit. But it's way quicker for students to simply upload my homework pdf to chatgpt and copy down the output than give it their own attempt.

Of course, doing this results in poor exam performance. Anecdotally, my exams from my recent fall semester were the lowest they've ever been. I put two problems on my final that directly came from from my homework, one of them being the problem that made me realize roughly 75% of my class was chatgpt'ing all the homework as chatgpt isn't super great at reading angles from figures, and it's like these students had never even seen a problem like it before.

I'm not completely against the use of AI for my homework. It could be like a tutor that students ask questions to when stuck. But unfortunately that takes more effort than simply typing "solve problems 1 through 5, showing all steps, from this document" into chatgpt.

[–] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Personally, I think we have homework the wrong way around. Instead of teaching the subject in class and then assign practice for home, we should be learn the subject at home and so the practice in class.

I always found it easier to read up on something, get an idea of a concept by my self. But when trying to solve the problems I ran into questions, but no one was there I could ask. If the problem were to be solved in class I could ask fellow students or the teacher.

Plus if the kids want to learn the concept from ChatGPT or Wikipedia that's fine by me as long as they learn it somehow.

Of course this does not apply to all concepts, subjects and such but as a general rule I think it works.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 9 points 1 day ago

Instead of teaching the subject in class and then assign practice for home, we should be learn the subject at home and so the practice in class.

Then you get students who get mad because they're "teaching themselves". Not realizing at all that the teacher curated what they're reading/doing and is an SME that's available to them when they're completely lost.

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[–] ech@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

It's absolutely cheating - it's plagiarism. It's no different in that regard than copying a paper found online, or having someone else write the paper for you. It's also a major self-own - these students have likely one opportunity to better themselves through higher education, and are trashing that opportunity with this shit.

I do agree that institutions need to adapt. Edit history is an interesting idea, though probably easy to work around. Imo, direct teacher-student interfacing would be the most foolproof, but also incredibly taxing on time and effort for teachers. It would necessitate pretty substantial changes to current practices.

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[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

god i love ppl outsourcing their learning to Microsoft

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

"Get back in that bottle you stupid genie!"

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