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2 Sep 21 6:00 PM · 4d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 4 comments · 3 sources · development 2 of 2
The Atlantic article was shared and gift-linked across Techmeme, Mastodon, and Reddit, generating discussion about detector reliability, teaching tactics, and underlying academic labor conditions.
“This is a bad idea, if a teacher tried to force this stuff on me the school compliance department would get a very angry letter from my ADA lawyer.”
FCCRFP, Reddit commenter · reddit ↗Timothy Paustian Biology professor, University of Wisconsin–MadisonMarc Watkins Lecturer, University of Mississippi, studies AI in educationAnnie Chechitelli Chief product officer, TurnitinMIT working group Author of an influential report on AI in educationPangram AI-detection tool maker
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first by The Atlantic, 4d ago
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I don't think you're being downvoted for mentioning something "nice" about AI, I think you're getting downvoted because this is low effort as fuck and you make zero attempt to explain what mechanism this would be, how it would work, how it would address the things that AI is objectively making worse: literacy, critical thinking, philosophy. You…
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Unionization amongst graduate students a has grown pretty quickly in the United States in recent years: In 2012, 64,424 graduate students were unionized, but by 2024, that number had swelled to 150,104, an increase of 133%. More than a third (38%) of graduate student workers are now in a union. There are clearly many grad students who aren't happy…
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This is a bad idea, if a teacher tried to force this stuff on me the school compliance department would get a very angry letter from my ADA lawyer. Then the teacher would be forced to stop, or be fired. Throwing curve balls at students in assignments is a shitty teacher classic.
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Requires human graders. Like all things optimized to run as lean as possible. Going back to simpler proven methods requires investing in labor.
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