Cheat GPT: Students have AI do their assignments and teachers can't prove it
The advancements in AI have made it easier for students to cheat.
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702’s John Perlman speaks with Dr Carla Lever, Adjunct Lecturer at Stellenbosch University.
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University students are taking advantage of the availability of AI to cheat on assignments.
Students can generate entire assignments in minutes, without putting in any of the work themselves.
To make matters more complicated for teachers, these assignments do not show up as plagiarised.
This has left university authorities at a loss with how to handle it, as there is no way to prove assignments were AI-generated.
“Why wouldn’t students use this? It feels like an easy, quick, safe way to improve your grades.”
- Dr Carla Lever, Adjunct Lecturer at Stellenbosch University
Lever says she is assigning fewer essays because of this.
When she does assign essays, 50-60% of the ones she receives appear to be AI-generated... although she cannot prove that number.
One of the obvious signs that something is AI-generated is when the examples given are global north-centred.
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