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Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI (www.theguardian.com)

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Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal.

A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students. That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.

Figures up to May suggest that number will increase again this year to about 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students – but recorded cases represent only the tip of the iceberg, according to experts.

The data highlights a rapidly evolving challenge for universities: trying to adapt assessment methods to the advent of technologies such as ChatGPT and other AI-powered writing tools.

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[–] josefo@leminal.space 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It's not cheating, it's vibe studying

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No shit. I’m in postsecondary as an instructor and it is so beyond frustrating . They all use it, they don’t want to read or learn.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

None of our institutions encourage "learning"; they are built to encourage "making the grade". Why they need the grade and what it represents is irrelevant to students. It's just a barrier that society has placed in front of them.

There needs to be something done about how we, as a society, approach education because whatever we are doing ain't working. It apparently only worked at a very surface level and that was only because A.I. wasn't available yet to be an easy out.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Three magic words - "Open Note Exam"

Students prep their own notes (usually limited to "X pages"), take them into the exam, gets to use them for answering questions.

Tests application and understanding over recall. If students AI their notes, they will be useless.

Been running my exams as open note for 3 years now - so far so good. Students are happy, I don't have to worry about cheating, and the university remains permanently angry because they want everything to be coursework so everyone gets an AI A ^_^

[+] SoloCritical@lemmy.world -18 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

If using ChatGPT for tests is cheating, I’d argue calculators are cheating for math.. it’s just another tool at people’s disposal as far as I’m concerned.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 6 points 15 hours ago

How can you be so dense?

Using a calculator for math is cheating unless it has been explicitly allowed. Which it isn't until higher grades because before that, people are supposed to do math without a calculator. Which they should do to get a proper understanding about the subject.

The same holds for literally any tool. If the goal is to get the students to be able to convincingly communicate their thoughts or to see if they understood a topic by making them explain it, having them use chatgpt accomplished nothing and just wastes everybody's time. If the goal is to see if they can produce enough bullshit to satisfy an average public administration, then letting them use llms might be valid. Just like any other tool, it's legitimate to allow llms or not, based on whatever is supposed to end up in a student's head. But using it without it being allowed is cheating, simple as that.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 14 hours ago

calculators isnt a computer where you can search up the answers lol. its literally plug in a formula and numbers and it spits out whatever you input, it doesnt give you the answer to a question. Also many math questions are abstracts, so you have to discern the correct forumla/mathematics to use.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 15 hours ago

Really? A calculator only puts out what you put in.

A LLM gives you what has been put into it by it's massive illegally scraped training dataset.

A better question would be is there a point to closed book/non-reference material exams, and in that setting is there a place for LLMs?

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world -4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Not from UK and also not a student, but imo this is more a school problem than the students. The teachers just do not understand how to cope with AI. With open note exam and traditional exam style questions, I would be an idiot if I do use AI.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

professors were already on the bordering of using AI, when before they just use software to look at your essay and any cheating it might detect.

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 76 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Maybe we need a new way to approach school. I don't think I agree with turning education into a competition where the difficulty is curved towards the most competitive creating a system that became so difficult that students need to edge each other out any way they can.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I guess what I don’t understand is what changed? Is everything homework now? When I was in school, even college, a significant percentage of learning was in class work, pop quizzes, and weekly closed book tests. How are these kids using LLMs so much for class if a large portion of the work is still in the classroom? Or is that just not the case anymore? It’s not like ChatGPT can handwrite an essay in pencil or give an in person presentation (yet).

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

University was always guided self-learning, at least in the UK. The lecturers are not teachers. The provide and explain material, but they're not there to hand-hold you through it.

University education is very different to what goes on at younger ages. It has to be when a class is 300 rather than 30 people.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

WTF? 300? There were barely 350 people in my graduating class of high school and that isn’t a small class for where I am from. The largest class size at my college was maybe 60. No wonder people use LLMs. Like, that’s just called an auditorium at that point, how could you even ask a question? Self-guided isn’t supposed to mean “solo”.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 22 hours ago

There'd be smaller tutorial sessions. I'd have a once a week 5 on 1 session with my tutor for an hour. Lab sessions might be 30-40 people. Specialist courses would be 100 people.

...but yes, lectures were 300+ people for the core subjects. Generally you and your peers would work together on making sense of it all. You'd find that some people understood some subjects better than others and you'd help each other out.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You can ask questions in auditorium classes.

The 300+ student courses typically were high volume courses like intro or freshman courses.

Second year cuts down significantly in class size, but also depends on the subject.

3rd and 4th year courses, in my experience, were 30-50 students

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[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Actually caught, or caught with a "ai detection" software?

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 43 points 2 days ago

"Read this document. Was it made with Ai?"

"Yes, it sure was! Great catch!"

"You're wrong, I just wrote it myself 15 minutes ago."

"Teeheehee oopsie! Silly me! I'll try to do better next time then! Is there anything else I can help with?"

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 days ago

And thats just the ones that were stupid enough to get caught realistically I think this is more like 5% instead of 0.5%

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Surprise motherfuckers. Maybe don't give grant money to LLM snakeoil fuckers, and maybe don't allow mass for-profit copyright violations.

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