In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students' midterm. It was about the...

In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students’ midterm. It was about the…

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    881·
    7 hours ago

    Here saved you a click and and badly written “article”

    In an online discussion post, Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson posed a question that represented part of his students’ midterm. It was about the Industrial Revolution, but knowing how many students now rely solely on artificial intelligence for their answers, he secretly embedded instructions telling the AI to include information about Madagascar in a way that makes no sense.

    Being written in white text meant the instructions were invisible.

    (…)

    Had any of these cheaters even bothered to check what the AI had generated, they’d likely have noticed the strange references to the island country constantly appearing in an essay about the Industrial Revolution.

    • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      31 minutes ago

      I don’t know that the article was all that badly written, but you missed a couple of points that I’d call essential:

      One, it was 32 students out of 35 total who used AI and then didn’t even bother to check it, so only 3 students even made an honest attempt in the entire semester.

      Two, the professor told the students that they were allowed to contest the grade if they wanted, and only 2 out of the 32 students even tried to contest it.