Comment by anon373839
3 years ago
This problem has such a simple solution: have the kids write some in-class essays throughout the term. Then, if cheating is suspected on a homework assignment, the teacher cross-references against the known GPT-free work to compare its quality.
It does mean that good writers may be able to get away with cheating, but then they really didn’t need the practice to begin with.
The students just use GPT within class because they are completely shameless. I'd have to sit behind them and watch their screens like a prison guard. I haven't resigned myself to that so far.
I think the more reasonable solution is to just wait for the university to take active measures against it, and accept that this is just a new development in how students cheat, which they have always done. The fact that the administrators are dumping this all on teachers and TAs is totally unfair to the actual workers.
Why can’t this be done like in-class pencil-and-paper exams?