So it just occurred to me that students trying to use ChatGPT to write papers (papers that will probably get a C at best but hey Cs get degrees...) should use some of the pre-existing paraphraser tools out there as an extra level of obfuscation to trick the algorithms that try to detect AI generated text
Sites like this https://quillbot.com/
Lol.
Paraphrasers are AI tools too. I wouldn't bet against AI detectors (who are AI themselves, the traitors!) being unable to detect paraphrasers.
I had no illusions that it was a FOOLPROOF plan. But running it through a few AI algorithms will certainly add another level of obfuscation that will make it *harder* to detect.
The problem with this is teachers are lazy as fuck and just want scantrons so they can shove them in a reader and let it do the grading. Using essays is actual work to grade and wont happen.
My first year as a TA I had hand written weekly essays to grade. It was absolute AIDS. My dog had better penmanship and grammar. At week three I told them it would only be accepted if it was typed in Word or Google Docs. Fuck handwritten shit.
Oh yeah for sure. I'm hopefully going back to college this year to finally finish my degree (still a few pieces to put together) and I have no intention of using AI to write anything haha. But someone who was smart and lazy and trying to just get a C to get through one of their bullshit electives or something tho? Definitely the best way to go, passing it through a few algorithms.
Lots of people here already know my real name, honestly. Was pretty open with it when I was fundraising back when I was going through chemo. Tho I never took the link out of the Health Problems thread in the Grown Up Stuff forum, so I suppose the trolls maybe didn't learn it then.
Fuck you, you're giving me flashbacks to when I TA'd a class of 200 in grad school. I'll die a happy man if I never see another human's handwriting.
Really? I've seen a lot of educators say that ChatGPT essays are D- to C+ material at best. Well written in a purely linguistic sense but with inaccuracies in the information.
Yeah, I noticed the same thing too, that phrase comes up a lot more in the past 2 weeks or so:
Ahhh yeah that's pretty believable then. I'm used to mostly just thinking about the way things affect the future of STEM fields. Probably true of soft subjects in general that ChatGPT can do passable work. In particular, creative writing classes are FUCKED.
