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Parking_Attitude_519 OP t1_j4tqfr6 wrote

Even if they were, it's pretty unrealiable. I tried using GPTzero and it marked ALL of the essays regardless of it being written by a human or chatGPT as AI generated. And what's to stop students from using GPTzero to edit their AI generated essays until it's detected as human?

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luis-mercado t1_j4tr9hv wrote

There’s an extra human component that can’t be avoided: the teacher, at least a good teacher, know very well how their students tend to express themselves. So differences between their accustomed language and these essays would be easier to discern. And even when there is doubt, the teacher could ask some basic question about their own essay, questions they should answer easily since they wrote them, supposedly.

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Parking_Attitude_519 OP t1_j4tscdl wrote

The student can edit it into their style or feed their past essays into chatGPT and write a new essay mimicking how they write. They can also just read their essays and learn the information contained inside them although I highly doubt they would.

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BeondTheGrave t1_j4tw9sz wrote

I’ve done a lot of grading in a university setting, and this is genuinely a thing. You can always tell, because a student will go from writing like they’ve been hit in the head with a shovel to suddenly writing grammatically flawless, complex, multi clausal sentences. And then back to shove head the next sentence. And if you put the good sentence into google? Wikipedia every time.

The bigger issue is with essays entirely plagiarized or, I assume, written by an AI. Students can also ‘crap up’ their essay to disguise plagiarism which I’ve also seen. The thing I tell my students is they’ll spend more time trying to trick me than just doing the work. But the siren song of an easy A is strong in some.

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