Yeah. When I was a student, I got sent to an academic misconduct panel just suspected of cheating, and was told I absolutely could be expelled if they found out I had actually done it.

And sure, in reality somebody had copied my work and I could prove it, so I was fine - but at least they bothered to actually investigate in my example!

I know policies are different between institutions, but these students got caught red-handed not just plagiarising, but outright faking coursework submissions. Why is there no investigation into their previous coursework, no misconduct panel interviews, literally nothing apart from failing the specific part of the mid-term they were caught cheating on.

No wonder they don't give a damn when the punishment for being caught has so little teeth!

As you say, times have changed for the worse.

Colleges have become profit obsessed and students are the cash cows. Expulsion is bad for revenue.

Policy where I teach is that it's up to the professor's discretion, though that's mostly because it's not always as easy to prove as this. There's a boilerplate anti cheating section we have in our syllabus that says it's a reportable offense that may lead to academic probation or expulsion.

Honestly, it's also a ton of paperwork so I've just opted to fail them since usually my papers aren't so easily answered via an LLM and rather than tell them I caught them cheating, I simply point out they missed rubric item 2, 5 and 6 so it's something solid, not my speculation. But I also haven't white texted them yet, lol.

Well you see, we don't have DEI any more.

Instead we simply have literally no standards, for anyone!

That's how meritocracy works, right?

I presume that the use of gen AI is not considered plagiarism.

They probably have some kind of lame policy around "responsible use of gen AI" or something.

That makes a lot more sense. Having almost all your students proven cheaters would be catastrophic, and I can't imagine he would have remained so relatively calm and matter-of-fact.

It's also important to remember that that's 32 college students who didn't proofread. How many more noticed his shenanigans when highlighting the text, or simply used LLMs for only part of their essay?

“Thirty-two of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response,” he explained in a viral TikTok, sounding incredulous. “And apparently they didn’t proofread it.”

In don’t know, that sounds like only three people passed that portion the mid-term.

US universities maybe.

My experience with high school is that they would want you to cheat so the school's numbers look good. The consequences of No Child Left Behind will be felt for a long time.

Did a paper with a 20-year old. Intelligent, well-spoken girl. She was absolutely astonished that there are keyboard shortcuts for Cut and Paste.

Well they aren't teaching themselves. They're learning from their predecessors like every generation before them. You think they're all struggling academically by choice?

been that way for almost two decades.

Soon the slop will just start dropping words and making typos because it’s learned that’s what we prefer.

and quite frankly, a lot of them don’t know obvious shit because, well, they’re young.

Being young or being a student doesn't mean you're dumb. Also even if you haven't it's still something you think about and discuss. Especially by your third and fourth years, it's something you should be actively thinking about more and more.

I finished school two years ago by the way. Not trying to give you hope for the future or anything because a lot of people are dumb but they should know better.

This has been common practice in schools for several years now. Students are well aware of this tactic.

Im surprised that some students were caught off guard, because anyone in Dark mode can easily see the white font.

They can't get a master's if they don't graduate with a bachelor's first.

depends how universitiy grad programs calculate your gpa, some with take Ws, and 0s into consideration when it comes to calculating it.

FWIW in-state students are usually just as lucrative for universities, since the tuition discount is paid by state grants.

No it won't. What the professor did illustrates this. You have to have a human proof reading AI. No matter how smart computers get, they'll always be dumb as shit.

You can live in the AI designed house and I’ll live in the architect designed house. I live by a fault line so I’m a little more sensitive to niceties like not having it fall on me.

Try 386 real-mode / protected mode some day.

I have always liked the idea of assembly languages being able to program so close to machine speed.

But working with assembly has always felt like trying to build a mansion with what was left over after several Category 5 hurricanes flattened an area… and with zero power tools and machinery, to boot. Just hand tools and no supplies except that which you can salvage.