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

[Margaret van Naerssen via Edling]

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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