Students are relying on AI so heavily that universities are being forced to fundamentally rethink how they grade their work.

England’s higher education regulator, the Office for Students, is warning universities that they may need to replace traditional take-home essays and open-book exams with supervised assessments that prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to do their work.

AI-detection tools are too unreliable to consistently determine whether students have used the technology, the OfS said in a report published Wednesday.

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[–] 21 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I mentioned this in another post, maybe in a few.

The college I'm going to requires you to now use a Microslop account instead of a student one; this isn't new but it sure was confusing when you have three different emails for the school.

So when you log in. You're greeted by ChatGPT. The website for the school is such a clusterfuck that their website search uses AI. Then your writing is checked by AI. Now they encourage you to use an AI website for MLA/APA citation. Also your work is probably being graded by AI since most of the time it takes forever to get an answer from whoever is teaching the class. The amount of scripts seem to point that your mouse movements and keyboard strokes are being checked by AI since using RespondASS(the show us your room and you'll get flagged for looking at your keyboard and more! Like we might accidentally brick your computer!) was so very welcomed(sarcasm).

So there's a point where you start to think about whats really going on when you're rammed up the ass with AI shit and the syllabus says you can't use AI and assignments say "write it in your own words."

It's interesting. I wouldn't doubt that all the written papers are being used for llm training. Then you write your paper in your own words, and get a lowered grade because you made a jokey joke. If your friend has an issue in Windows 8.1 and came to you for help, what would you do? Find a new friend. I answered whatever the question.

Nothing too serious, and you ask why the lower grade. It wasn't professional and this class is being monitored. I answered the question and to top it off there were two-three other people that copied and rehashed my answer...

What I wrote was correct as I had done it, I just wrote it in a anti-AI way that someone had to read it and understand the concept.

So in conclusion, college is fucked. Half of it is advertising software and the other half is wasting your time. I've had good teachers and then I've had more idiots that don't belong teaching, well they don't if it takes almost a week to get an answer.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    I can also confirm that functionality in Microsoft products is (I think deliberately) being dumbed down and made counterintuitive in order to force people to use CoPilot. This has been especially problematic with Sharepoint.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 hours ago

    It's very likely deliberate. Even the operating system. I booted an old computer up with W7 and I was surprised how much easier it is to use.

    One class I had, they do a VM style "sim" and you're asked to open the terminal. Okay I press win+r to type in cmd. Incorrect! Use the search bar and type in terminal... I was pissed off

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