Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI
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Maybe not with AI but in a different way. Also exceptions obviously exist.
Anyways enough of boosting your stats.
Also not without ML. Especially in university you don't learn out of obligation anymore, you learn to actually acquire new skills. As soon as you let someone else or an LLM do that, you're very clearly showing that you don't actually have any interest in learning, but only in succeeding. Which is very fucking worthless, and dangerous.
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Also not without ML. Especially in university you don't learn out of obligation anymore, you learn to actually acquire new skills. As soon as you let someone else or an LLM do that, you're very clearly showing that you don't actually have any interest in learning, but only in succeeding. Which is very fucking worthless, and dangerous.
I wish people were so informed about online toxicity like you are about studying.
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it is snake oil in the sense that it is being sold as "AI", which it isn't. It is dangerous because LLMs can be used for targeted manipulation of millions if not billions of people.
ban photoshop too
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Yeah, I do worry about that. We haven't seen much in the way of propaganda bots or even LLM scams, but the potential is there.
Hopefully, people will learn to be skeptical they way they did with photoshopped photos, and not the way they didn't with where their data is going.
Evidence says people aren't skeptical for the most part and LLMs are good enough to fool all of us some of the time and some of us all of the time
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WTF? 300? There were barely 350 people in my graduating class of high school and that isnāt a small class for where I am from. The largest class size at my college was maybe 60. No wonder people use LLMs. Like, thatās just called an auditorium at that point, how could you even ask a question? Self-guided isnāt supposed to mean āsoloā.
There'd be smaller tutorial sessions. I'd have a once a week 5 on 1 session with my tutor for an hour. Lab sessions might be 30-40 people. Specialist courses would be 100 people.
...but yes, lectures were 300+ people for the core subjects. Generally you and your peers would work together on making sense of it all. You'd find that some people understood some subjects better than others and you'd help each other out.
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Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating ā and experts says these are tip of the iceberg
Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students. That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.
Figures up to May suggest that number will increase again this year to about 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students ā but recorded cases represent only the tip of the iceberg, according to experts.
The data highlights a rapidly evolving challenge for universities: trying to adapt assessment methods to the advent of technologies such as ChatGPT and other AI-powered writing tools.
Three magic words - "Open Note Exam"
Students prep their own notes (usually limited to "X pages"), take them into the exam, gets to use them for answering questions.
Tests application and understanding over recall. If students AI their notes, they will be useless.
Been running my exams as open note for 3 years now - so far so good. Students are happy, I don't have to worry about cheating, and the university remains permanently angry because they want everything to be coursework so everyone gets an AI A ^_^
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You can ask questions in auditorium classes.
I am going to be honest; I donāt believe you. I genuinely donāt believe that in a class with more people than minutes in the session that a person could legitimately have time to interact with the professor.
The 60 person class I referred to was a required lecture portion freshman science class with a smaller lab portion. That we could ask questions in the lab was the only reason 60 people was okay in the lecture and even then the professor said he felt it was too many people.
Your disbelief is strange.
People occasionally ask questions in lectures. Anything they are confused about gets covered off in tutorials later. Lecturers and tutors both have office hours where further questions are asked.
If a student has learning difficulties or special requirements there is pastoral care available for that.
It's really not mysterious.
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we're doomed
We are indeed. Not looking forward to my old age, where doctors, accountants, and engineers cheated their way into being qualified by using a glorified autocorrect.
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Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating ā and experts says these are tip of the iceberg
Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students. That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.
Figures up to May suggest that number will increase again this year to about 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students ā but recorded cases represent only the tip of the iceberg, according to experts.
The data highlights a rapidly evolving challenge for universities: trying to adapt assessment methods to the advent of technologies such as ChatGPT and other AI-powered writing tools.
Not from UK and also not a student, but imo this is more a school problem than the students. The teachers just do not understand how to cope with AI. With open note exam and traditional exam style questions, I would be an idiot if I do use AI.
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Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating ā and experts says these are tip of the iceberg
Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students. That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.
Figures up to May suggest that number will increase again this year to about 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students ā but recorded cases represent only the tip of the iceberg, according to experts.
The data highlights a rapidly evolving challenge for universities: trying to adapt assessment methods to the advent of technologies such as ChatGPT and other AI-powered writing tools.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]It's not cheating, it's vibe studying
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Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating ā and experts says these are tip of the iceberg
Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students. That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.
Figures up to May suggest that number will increase again this year to about 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students ā but recorded cases represent only the tip of the iceberg, according to experts.
The data highlights a rapidly evolving challenge for universities: trying to adapt assessment methods to the advent of technologies such as ChatGPT and other AI-powered writing tools.
If using ChatGPT for tests is cheating, Iād argue calculators are cheating for math.. itās just another tool at peopleās disposal as far as Iām concerned.
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If using ChatGPT for tests is cheating, Iād argue calculators are cheating for math.. itās just another tool at peopleās disposal as far as Iām concerned.
Really? A calculator only puts out what you put in.
A LLM gives you what has been put into it by it's massive illegally scraped training dataset.
A better question would be is there a point to closed book/non-reference material exams, and in that setting is there a place for LLMs?
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If using ChatGPT for tests is cheating, Iād argue calculators are cheating for math.. itās just another tool at peopleās disposal as far as Iām concerned.
How can you be so dense?
Using a calculator for math is cheating unless it has been explicitly allowed. Which it isn't until higher grades because before that, people are supposed to do math without a calculator. Which they should do to get a proper understanding about the subject.
The same holds for literally any tool. If the goal is to get the students to be able to convincingly communicate their thoughts or to see if they understood a topic by making them explain it, having them use chatgpt accomplished nothing and just wastes everybody's time. If the goal is to see if they can produce enough bullshit to satisfy an average public administration, then letting them use llms might be valid. Just like any other tool, it's legitimate to allow llms or not, based on whatever is supposed to end up in a student's head. But using it without it being allowed is cheating, simple as that.
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Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating ā and experts says these are tip of the iceberg
Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students. That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.
Figures up to May suggest that number will increase again this year to about 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students ā but recorded cases represent only the tip of the iceberg, according to experts.
The data highlights a rapidly evolving challenge for universities: trying to adapt assessment methods to the advent of technologies such as ChatGPT and other AI-powered writing tools.
No shit. Iām in postsecondary as an instructor and it is so beyond frustrating . They all use it, they donāt want to read or learn.
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The certificate is valuable i suppose, lot of job required that cert to even get a glance with the application. After that, they just gonna try their luck with bullshitting and sucking up to their higher up.
Or maybe they just like the university life and doesn't want to look like they're slacking for another few years.
Either way, yikes.
employers often dont check, they look for certificate, x years of experience,,,etc.
only certain jobs require more scrutiny though.
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If using ChatGPT for tests is cheating, Iād argue calculators are cheating for math.. itās just another tool at peopleās disposal as far as Iām concerned.
calculators isnt a computer where you can search up the answers lol. its literally plug in a formula and numbers and it spits out whatever you input, it doesnt give you the answer to a question. Also many math questions are abstracts, so you have to discern the correct forumla/mathematics to use.
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Not from UK and also not a student, but imo this is more a school problem than the students. The teachers just do not understand how to cope with AI. With open note exam and traditional exam style questions, I would be an idiot if I do use AI.
professors were already on the bordering of using AI, when before they just use software to look at your essay and any cheating it might detect.
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We are indeed. Not looking forward to my old age, where doctors, accountants, and engineers cheated their way into being qualified by using a glorified autocorrect.
doctors and engineer is probably much harder to cheat, because you would need to apply the knowlege hands on basis, and you would be found out and washe dout eventually. i can see fields that require alot of writing, oriignally people were hired to write thier prompts or essay pre-lawyer, or whatever but they always get caught down the line.
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Have you seen the cost of tuition? Hire more professors and smaller classes.
Anyways, undergrad isnāt even that important in the grand scheme of things. Let people cheat and let that show when they apply for entry level jobs or higher education. If they can be successful after cheating in undergrad, then does it even matter?
When you get to grad school and beyond is what really matters. Speaking from a US perspective.
hire more? alot of universities are quite stingy as they dont want to have too many tenures, they are infact trying to reduce that trend. some are also cutting back because enrollment issues in some areas.
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This is mostly the purpose of my homework. I assign daily homework. I don't expect students to get the correct answers but instead attempt them and then come to class with questions. My lectures are typically short so that i can dedicate class time to solving problems and homework assignments.
I always open my class with "does anyone have any questions on the homework?". Prior chatgpt, students would ask me to go through all the homework, since much of my homework is difficult. Last semester though, with so many students using chatgpt, they rarely asked me about the homework... I would often follow up with "Really? No questions at all?"
once the tests, final exams come around you will pretty much guessed who used AI, and are likely to fail out the major.
