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In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the...

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[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 39 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

How stupid are these kids to not even check the answer? That’s the biggest issue here lol

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well, it's always the stupid ones, that's why stuff like this is effective. You will never catch a good student cheating with that method

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Some people are too smart to fall for it, and dumb people know they're dumb, so they don't try, because they know they'll get caught.

You need those special ones who are too dumb to actually learn, but still think they are smart enough to outsmart a system that is beyond the comprehension of their puny minds. In other words, MAGAs.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Sounds like middle management, too. Wanting to take credit for the work of others.

[–] J92@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago

Its complacency, which is the worst thing to be engendering in the next generation.

Get them to the point that they don't know how to study or struggle, and you have a whole generation relying on your shitty LLM, and the dumber you are the less you know what you don't know until it's telling you what plants crave, sponsored by brawndo

[–] Sirdubdee@piefed.social 39 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

What a waste of money. Why go to school if you’re just going to use AI? What are you paying for?

[–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 hours ago

University degrees serve at least two functions.

One function is a sort of guarantee that you have the knowledge and skills of the particular degrees you obtain.

The other function is to show that you are the kind of person who gets university degrees... whether that is because you are competent or just that you come from a socio-economic background that values university degrees nad can afford them.

For that second function cheating matters very little if you don't get caught.

For the first function, it might also not be super relevant. I had to take a humanities class for my computer science degree. If I had cheated on the theater exam it would not have made me a worse programmer. 😄

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 hours ago

A piece of paper you can get in front of your parents, then wipe your ass with.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago

Getting practice at ctrl-C, ctrl-V?

[–] Yttra@lemmy.world 53 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The piece of paper that companies keep demanding you have, despite their AI black box always filtering you out for hyper specific and arbitrary reasons?

The real answer is they're probably just lazy, but I wouldn't blame anyone who doesn't really value the work that goes into their degrees and diplomas anymore (not that I'm against post-secondary education, though)

[–] oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

No, the first thing you said was the real answer.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 34 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oh no, that is super fucking lazy (I'm not even sure the word for it is lazy..), they are literally copying the assignment statement into an LLM, pasting the answer without reviewing it (not even the slightest curiosity about what was written?) and they're done?

[–] oceanwaveswoosh@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

This is really smart actually.

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