AI Cheating Is Getting Worse

Do most people really need to learn college level writing? I would ask, what is the motivator of learning how to write well? One reason could be communication. However, if we can communicate easier and faster than ever before with an AI, that subject no longer needs to be taught.

College writing will go the way of calligraphy. Colleges and the faculty that staff them need to keep up with the times or risk being obsoleted. Instead of teaching students to write, they should instead offer courses on prompt engineering and how to get the LLMs to spit out what is needed, in a minimum amount of time.

And let's face it -- most people are being prepared for the life of a corporate worker or laborer. I'd argue a great number of people don't need college. Cheating is widespread because there are people in those courses who aren't interested in the material. A quick course in how to compose an email, workplace communication should be all that is needed for most white collar workers. Those who really want to study writing should be offered the courses as an artistic, historical and anachronistic pursuit and those courses should definitely not be financed on the tax payer's dime.

The answer is pretty obvious, stop assigning these things to be done outside of a classroom/lab.

It upsets me that collaboration, and now the use of AI is considered “cheating”. By calling it cheating they are conditioning people to be stupid. You are supposed to work with others and it’s necessary. The people that learn to work with others are way more successful.

But in school teachers are focused on cramming info into kids heads instead of teaching them how to self learn. It’s like “give a kid a fish feed him for a day”. If you teach kids how to self learn then give them fun projects, they will naturally collaborate, use ai, and be totally prepared for life!

They would be much better off if they spent time studying real world problems and using ai to make kid level solutions in my opinion.

Can we go back to the spoken defense like Disputation or Rigorosum?

It's like bringing a calculator to the test!

Does AI cheating in school matter much? The primary party that loses out from the cheating is the cheater because they will fail to learn what they ought to have learned.

But wait, you say, won't they get a degree that they didn't earn? Doesn't matter: Right now anyone can just claim to have any degree they want. Universities will not confirm or deny if a particular party got a degree, citing privacy laws. Lying about degrees is probably widespread, we only hear about the few extremely uncommon cases where its caught and the perpetrator was someone high profile.

Even as it is, without/prior-to AI plenty of people manage to actually earn respectable looking degrees that turn out to be utter imbeciles in practice.

There are greater abuses of AI we ought to be concerned about.