Clever, clever : science

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I don't get it (not a native English speaker). Someone cares to ELI5? Thanks a lot in advance.

Edit: thank you everybody for explaining :-)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

A lot of students have started using ChatGPT to write papers for them. This person is saying they leave directions for an AI text generator in their directions that are hidden from view but which would be observable to the AI scanning it. So any paper turned in with that specific alteration would be almost certainly from a cheater.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

The professor hides white text on a white background to catch potential cheaters. The actual assignment is written in black text. If the student has followed the instructions that are written in white, this is a good indication that they may have cheated, because human eyes won't see the white text against a white background, while a computer program writing a paper for the student will see the white text and follow the additional instructions.

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[+] [email protected] -17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

This is invisible on paper but readable if uploaded to chatGPT.

This sounds fake. It seems like only the most careless students wouldn't notice this "hidden" prompt or the quote from the dog.

Maybe if homework can be done by statistics, then it's not worth doing.

Maybe if a "teacher" has to trick their students in order to enforce pointless manual labor, then it's not worth doing.

Schools are not about education but about privilege, filtering, indoctrination, control, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

All it takes is a student to proofread their paper to make sure it's not complete nonsense. The bare minimum a cheating student should do.

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[+] [email protected] -44 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Shouldn't be the question why students used chatgpt in the first place?

chatgpt is just a tool it isn't cheating.

So maybe the author should ask himself what can be done to improve his course that students are most likely to use other tools.

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