There’s no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide::AI detectors used by educators to detect use of ChatGPT don’t work, says OpenAI.
There’s no way for teachers to figure out if students are using ChatGPT to cheat, OpenAI says in new back-to-school guide::AI detectors used by educators to detect use of ChatGPT don’t work, says OpenAI.
You can tell ChatGPT to avoid doing all the things that people associate with AI. Tell it to avoid using a neutral voice, try to sound a little flawed, avoid obscure technical jargon, and even give it some of your writings to emulate your specific voice.
A lot of teachers are absolutely certain a student is using ChatGPT and those students just write in a style that people associate with AI. Autistic students specifically sound like they are reciting an encyclopedia often, which could put them at risk of discrimination from teachers who feel in their gut something is wrong but have no proof.
The answer is to speak to students directly to see if they can explain the concepts, not using unfalsifiable metrics like a gut feeling.
To add on to the detection issues, international students, students on the spectrum, students with learning disability, … can all be subject to being flagged as “AI generated” by AI detectors. Teachers/professors who have gut feelings should (1) re-consider what biases they have in expected writing styles, and (2), like u/mind says, check in with the students.
I’ve had great success in pasting my writing in to help it write in my “voice”