Prof Flunks All His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers
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What ever happened to throwing the papers down the stairs and giving highest marks to the ones that went the furthest?
It must be pretty hard to be a teacher at the moment. Imagine feeling like you’re just reading the output of ChatGPT for 8 hours a day on your weekend. I’d feel like quitting my job personally.
I can feel empathy but this was just pathetic, especially given how it has been handled.
We've entered a new meta game where many of our methods of authenticating merit are broken with text generating AI because those methods rely on text. Think cover letters, resumes, essays etc.
Text based authentication of merit was always broken, but now its extremely broken. Until we develop better methods we will have to view everything text based with doubt.
Perhaps the silver lining is now there is a strong incentive to measure merit not written word, which was never a great proxy of merit in cases like job applications, essays, exams etc.
For that matter neither is interviewing a good proxy for merit, so it makes me wonder how society will deal with this. Otherwise the risk of a great enshittening is very high.
I know that there are a number of tools intended to detect AI-generated plagiarism, but I think that those are also known to commonly output false positives.