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☆ College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

While some professors have embraced it as a tool, others are finding ways to fight its use. Concerned professors told Insider they plan to go back to handwritten assignments and oral exams to avoid the use of generative AI. "I'm planning on going medieval on the students and going all the way back to oral exams," Christopher Bartel, a philosophy professor at Appalachian State University, told Insider in January. "If it's school kids, that's a real yellow-red flag on the size of the prize," internet analyst Mark Shmulik told Insider. "This idea that if the ChatGPT drop-off is due to students on summer break, that implies a narrower audience and fewer use cases."

Persons: Fortune, Krebs, Bill Hart, Davidson, Christopher Bartel, Mark Shmulik Organizations: Harvard, Michigan State University's College of Arts and, Appalachian State University, Fox News, OpenAI

☆ 2 writers who get paid to produce assignments to let lazy students cheat suspect ChatGPT is stealing their customers
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

People who get paid to write students' assignments told Insider they're already losing work. Insider spoke with Austin and Taylor, who both get paid to help college students cheat. "I began my professorial career as a one-year lecturer at a flagship state university," Taylor said. After she shared her confusion, colleagues told Taylor about the bespoke essay-writing business and she decided to try it out herself. "I'm currently looking for other types of writing work, because there's really no way to see where this is going to go," Taylor said.

☆ College professors are considering creative ways to stop students from using AI to cheat
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some professors say students are using new tech to pass off AI-generated content as their own. Some professors say students are using OpenAI's buzzy chatbot, ChatGPT, to pass off AI-generated content as their own. The issue has led to professors considering creative ways to stamp out the use of AI in colleges. Blue books and oral exams"I'm perplexed about how to handle AI going forward," Aumann told Insider. Bartel agreed that students could get away with using AI very easily.

☆ Two professors who say they caught students cheating on essays with ChatGPT explain why AI plagiarism can be hard to prove
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Two philosopher professors said they caught their students submitting essays written by ChatGPT. If students don't confess to using the program, professors say it can be hard to prove. Antony Aumann, a religious studies and philosophy professor at Fordham University, told Insider he had caught two students submitting essays written by ChatGPT. When the chatbot said it was 99% sure the essays were written by ChatGPT, he forwarded the results to the students. Christopher Bartel, a professor of philosophy at Appalachian State University, said that while the grammar in AI-generated essays is almost perfect, the substance tends to lack detail.

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