College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

  • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Am I wrong in thinking student can still generate an essay and then copy it by hand?

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      1 year ago

      Not during class. Most likely a proctored exam. No laptops, no phones, teacher or proctor watching.

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        1 year ago

        …then why can’t you do that with a school laptop that can’t access the web…?

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            1 year ago

            And so do colleges. If they don’t want to invest $2000 every 5/6 years for a hundred dumpster windows 95 PCs it shouldn’t be the paying student to suffer.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like effort, I’m making a font out of my handwriting and getting a 3d printer to write it

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        1 year ago

        Obviously that is the next step for the technically inclined, but even the less inclined may be capable of generating them copying to save time and brain effort.