A professor used white font to hide instructions to throw off students using an AI chatbot to cheat on their midterm.

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    7 days ago

    That’s awful steep. I dislike AI as much as the next guy, but as a former college prof I don’t think I could see myself being that heavy handed.

    Fail the paper, sure, but depending on past submissions I’d consider an alternative assignment. Otherwise, good luck when you take the program again.

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      I think it’s not so steep if students are told beforehand. Tell them what counts as cheating. Tell them the consequences. Tell them it’s serious.

      In university I always had to sign a little text that informed us that we are not allowed to cheat and that doing so would lead to failing the test and potentially getting expelled.

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        Even if those students are told beforehand. Completely destroying any future chance on education because of a stupid thing they did once when you were young is not realistic.

        Even in your example, they only get potentially expelled from a single school.

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        Brother there isn’t even a national sex offender registry. You want to treat students who use AI worse than we treat pedophiles?

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          You’re right, you definitely should treat sex offenders way harsher.

          Also if a school says “don’t do X or you WILL fail the test and MIGHT get expelled” and then you proceed to do X then I think it’s on you and not ‘bad treatment’ at all. Especially if you do X repeatedly.

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            I did have one student fail for using AI. It was such an awful submission.

            I also had multiple students that I believe used AI to help in the creation of some assignments, but I built in presentations including Q&A to ensure they could speak to the subject.

            No situation I came across was bad enough to warrant expulsion except for one case of blatant plagiarism in which a student had accessed another students computer and reworded a major assignment, but this had nothing to do with AI.

            Bonus: I regularly ran in-class activities where I’d split the class into small groups on the Human side and on the AI side and give them the same tasks to complete. Humans always won.