If we’re being completely honest, people were gaming college degrees for decades, AI just makes it more simplistic. It’s why the “ivies” became a pageantry contest for admission, why Sowell refused to teach in the late 60s, and why the average iq of a bachelor’s degree student dropped a full standard deviation between the 80s and now. The academic “excellence” was shown to be a mass fraud over a decade ago when students were publicly lecturing the cuckolded faculty and changing a tire became a college course.
I believe until 2020 cheating used to be done by a rather small minority, at least on courses that weren't recycling multiple choice test banks. Now it sounds like it's done by a majority. And before cheating might require effort and learning something, like memorizing the answers, but using AI to write your essay doesn't require any real effort or learning.
From the examples in this article you can see it's often a slippery slope from trying AI to asking it for ideas when you get stuck, and then to asking it for ideas before coming up with your own, then having it write the whole thing with your changes to the wording, and then just having AI change the wording too. The best way to avoid the slippery slope is not to use AI at all. Humanity is dead unless AI development is stopped.
Back in the day you would either get an essay from someone that already took the class (Professors usually reuse the same topics for their papers) or would pay someone to write it for you.
Both of which are a lot more difficult than using AI. You can't pay someone who doesn't know the subject and even if you know someone who did the class before they might not have their old essays, they might be for different questions, and they might not want to give them to you, plus you'd have to change the arguments to be sure you won't get busted for copying.
If we’re being completely honest, people were gaming college degrees for decades, AI just makes it more simplistic. It’s why the “ivies” became a pageantry contest for admission, why Sowell refused to teach in the late 60s, and why the average iq of a bachelor’s degree student dropped a full standard deviation between the 80s and now. The academic “excellence” was shown to be a mass fraud over a decade ago when students were publicly lecturing the cuckolded faculty and changing a tire became a college course.
I believe until 2020 cheating used to be done by a rather small minority, at least on courses that weren't recycling multiple choice test banks. Now it sounds like it's done by a majority. And before cheating might require effort and learning something, like memorizing the answers, but using AI to write your essay doesn't require any real effort or learning.
From the examples in this article you can see it's often a slippery slope from trying AI to asking it for ideas when you get stuck, and then to asking it for ideas before coming up with your own, then having it write the whole thing with your changes to the wording, and then just having AI change the wording too. The best way to avoid the slippery slope is not to use AI at all. Humanity is dead unless AI development is stopped.
Back in the day you would either get an essay from someone that already took the class (Professors usually reuse the same topics for their papers) or would pay someone to write it for you.
Both of which are a lot more difficult than using AI. You can't pay someone who doesn't know the subject and even if you know someone who did the class before they might not have their old essays, they might be for different questions, and they might not want to give them to you, plus you'd have to change the arguments to be sure you won't get busted for copying.