[Edling] Now AI can write students’ essays for them, will everyone become a cheat?

[InterpreterMan via Edling]

Greetings from Taipei, Taiwan!
In a similar vein, I read an article some time back about an enterprising American prof with a Ph.D. in English who is quite good at ghostwriting papers and even theses and dissertations anonymously for a price. He has an amazingly fast turnaround time and is skilled at writing on a variety of topics. 
I bet that his productivity will go through the roof when he harnesses the power of AI!
Dan VTaipei

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From: Margaret van Naerssen via Edling <edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu>
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Sent: Sun, Dec 4, 2022 9:48 am
Subject: Re: [Edling] Now AI can write students’ essays for them, will everyone become a cheat?

Francis, thanks so much for the link to the plagiarism article.Whoa--Guess I'm glad I'm not teaching a course involving writing now.Margaret van Naerssen
On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 6:52 AM Francis M. Hult via Edling <edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu> wrote:

The Guardian

Now AI can write students’ essays for them, will everyone become a cheat?

Parents and teachers across the world are rejoicing as students have returned to classrooms. But unbeknownst to them, an unexpected insidious academic threat is on the scene: a revolution in artificial intelligence has created powerful new automatic writing tools. These are machines optimised for cheating on school and university papers, a potential siren song for students that is difficult, if not outright impossible, to catch. 

Full story:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/28/ai-students-essays-cheat-teachers-plagiarism-tech

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