Gizmodo: It’s Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System

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Fitz
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Career teacher here.

I think it's worth noting that AI detection programs are notoriously unreliable. They return such a large number of false positives that holding results against students is untenable.
Renegade7
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Fitz wrote: Thu May 22, 2025 11:22 pm
Career teacher here.

I think it's worth noting that AI detection programs are notoriously unreliable. They return such a large number of false positives that holding results against students is untenable.
Either they know what the wrote or they don't in my experience.

You can only bs so much what you said you cited.

With turnitin it could detect AI. But it was rare I saw something that was actually flagged. The detection around citations was on point imo.

This is almost 2 years ago...that's a lifetime with respect go how fast AI is moving.

There has to be Governance around this and clear guidance in how to go about it...I think you used AI because a tool told me is different then huge amount of flagging and asking questions to prove they did or didn't write it themselves.

At the college I was teaching at you had to make a case that someone was plagiarizing, you couldn't jus witch hunt your students.
We don't know what we think...
We don't know what we know...
All we have to go on is what we say and what we show...
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