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cab67

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21. It's right on my syllabus.

Sun Jun 28, 2026, 03:40 PM

21 hrs ago

"The use of AI in the completion of any homework assignment is not allowed."

I'm sure students are using AI anyway.

Sometimes, the joke is on them. In my upper-level class, I can identify users of AI because they all have the same borderline-funny absurdly wrong answers. All ethical concerns aside, AI is not reliable.

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Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown University: 'Academic integrity is at risk' [View all] highplainsdem 23 hrs ago OP

Most enlightening information, thank you for bringing it here for us Attilatheblond 22 hrs ago #1

Who needs higher education when you can fake your way through life. nt ImNotGod 22 hrs ago #2

As expressed by a member of... 2naSalit 22 hrs ago #9

To someone.... SergeStorms 21 hrs ago #23

There is a reason med schools don't allow take-home exams dalton99a 22 hrs ago #3

I want to know which AI tool they were using RandomNumbers 22 hrs ago #4

Those AI models you mentioned were all illegally trained on stolen intellectual property. I'm sorry highplainsdem 22 hrs ago #10

Not necessarily in the case of how I use it for work. RandomNumbers 22 hrs ago #13

Cory Doctorow teaches us what AI can and cannot use, and why most of what AI uses is not stealing intellectual property. ancianita 20 hrs ago #31

I like Cory and often agree with him, and he'd sometimes repost my comments when I was still highplainsdem 20 hrs ago #34

And btw, Cory isn't in agreement with most creators of intellectual property on copyright: highplainsdem 19 hrs ago #35

probably cuz it's a narrow subject. mopinko 22 hrs ago #12

Narrow subjects aren't necessarily immune to the problem. cab67 21 hrs ago #22

Clever prof! nt LAS14 22 hrs ago #5

universities will take the money, thus prostituting their values by bending over for trump msongs 22 hrs ago #6

It's not necessarily a matter of politics. cab67 21 hrs ago #25

And yet, certain DUers think this is just fine and we're yelling at clouds. Coventina 22 hrs ago #7

Certain DUers think using AI to cheat on exams if "just fine". Disaffected 21 hrs ago #15

thread from a few days ago Coventina 21 hrs ago #16

OK, I skimmed that thread and didn't see any posts Disaffected 21 hrs ago #18

I'm not going to call out specific people, as that is against DU TOS. Coventina 21 hrs ago #19

Sorry but I cannot draw inferences that are not there. Disaffected 21 hrs ago #20

Are you seriously making a case that coming into a thread about AI threats to Coventina 21 hrs ago #28

That's some serious goalpost moving there. Disaffected 21 hrs ago #29

This is sad and worrying. yardwork 22 hrs ago #8

it's a brilliant solution imho. mopinko 22 hrs ago #11

Yes Kaleva 22 hrs ago #14

I remember the dreaded individual oral exams administered by no-nonsense Jesuits at the end of each semester, sop 20 hrs ago #33

But they can't write cursive! Mossfern 18 hrs ago #38

Take home, closed book exams?? Disaffected 21 hrs ago #17

It's right on my syllabus. cab67 21 hrs ago #21

This gets a bit murky but, Disaffected 21 hrs ago #27

wary. cab67 20 hrs ago #30

Interesting and well put. Disaffected 19 hrs ago #36

If only.... SergeStorms 21 hrs ago #24

Just based on my reading history, El Pais is another fantastic non-US M$M outlet erronis 21 hrs ago #26

The only way to deal with this Matthew28 20 hrs ago #32

I find it fascinating... kentuck 19 hrs ago #37

Older but wiser Mossfern 18 hrs ago #39

I think that the younger generations anciano 18 hrs ago #40

This is a problem. cab67 16 hrs ago #41

See reply 42. highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #43

I guess you've missed the news stories about polls showing younger users have a lower opinion of AI highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #42

I think the appropriate and responsible use of AI anciano 15 hrs ago #44

Generative AI tools are unethical because they're illegally trained on stolen intellectual property. highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #45