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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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Like, come on. Screen shot and put it in to an OCR if you're just too lazy to write out the prompt again.

(Or idk do the work you're paying exorbitant tuition for)

[–] Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, Alcorn State University didn’t publish the offending student’s names, and didn’t expel them, forever tarnishing all Alcorn degrees.

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[–] Deebster@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago

I watched the source videos and in the second the prof says of the two people who contested the cheating charge, one managed to get her grade changed by claiming she used dark mode so saw the "hidden" white text. Smart argument, I wonder if he actually believed it.

[–] Kaligalis@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

The problem isn't that they cheat. It is that they are not doing proper QA when using AI.

Everyone will use AI (or AI-powered robots) in some way or another for basically everything in a few years. Companies banning AI will just disappear. People who see using AI as cheating will become unemployable.
But no one knows when the massive AI reliability issue will be fixed. It can be tomorrow, but it can also take years or maybe even forever. Until then, AI requires a human doing proper QA to make the results reliable in almost all cases.

Doing QA mostly requires a completely different skill set and attitude than what the educational system teaches. That needs to change. Good QA is also important for doing anything without AI. But with AI, it's almost the only thing left for a human to do.

Btw, the article is bullshit. When the students select the text to copy it, the white on white text becomes visible. That is when people intelligent enough to be able to use AI (and yeah, that bar is really low; AI is pretty easy to use) are usually detecting that there is something fishy going on.

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