Post AtKWLI9yP4KFbacnfU by JoeRess@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #AtKWLI9yP4KFbacnfU by JoeRess@fosstodon.org
       2025-04-21T22:41:24Z
       
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       I know some educators follow me and I have a question for you: what are you doing about the use of LLMs for essays and assignments? In a world of "plagiarism checkers" and "humanizers", presumably it's very hard to prove that students haven't done the work that they are handing in. It must be fairly obvious though. Are there moves to change how students are assessed? Or have you all just given up? Have you started using LLMs to read and mark the "work" that students claim to have done?
       
 (DIR) Post #AtKWLIyJNuak7iB088 by mike@fosstodon.org
       2025-04-21T22:44:54Z
       
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       @JoeRess I'm not an educator. My parents were both educators and my sisters and my brother are all educators, but it wasn't for me. I am a college student though, and from what I've seen from the college I'm attending, mostly they're just issuing threats. I've seen in the syllabus of multiple classes some statement similar to "We can tell if you use an LLM and we'll flunk you out of school if you use one." They can't, but they want you to believe they can.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtKXS8v1GBvevRSdXs by jameshowell@fosstodon.org
       2025-04-21T22:57:22Z
       
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       @mike @JoeRess Even if I had any confidence in the AI detectors, which emphatically do not, I would never subject my students to it. Just have a little imagination in your assignments. Don't punish them for the billionaires' caprices: just challenge them a different way.