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Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: ‘Academic integrity is at risk’ (english.elpais.com)
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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Serrano did not void the midterm exam, but warned students that the final one, which counted for 50% of the final grade, would be held in-person. He also said that if the grade distribution was not similar to the midterm, only the final exam would be taken into account. The average score dropped to 48 out of 100. Of the 89 students who did the midterm exam, only 59 showed up for the final one. And of the 27 who did not show up, 22 had scored a perfect 100 in the midterm exam.

“The empirical evidence of fraud is overwhelming,” says the professor, who has decided to make changes for the coming academic year. First, the weekly exercises will not count towards the final grade, as these could be done with AI. Second, no more take-home exams, no matter how appropriate they would be.

Bruh...

Long before chatbots people were 100% cheating on "closed book, take him tests" there is no fucking way they weren't.

If you had told a class 30 years ago the same thing, the same result would have happened.

Saying if you don't match you only get the worse score, is going to discourage a shit ton of students.

The real problem is "closed book take home". And professors expecting students to not open the book. It's nothing about them, it's the current culture. If you don't cheat you can't compete. Elite places like Ivy League schools will always be full of cheaters in this climate, because they'll out compete people with ethics.