A few weeks after the launch of ChatGPT, Darren Hick, professor of philosophy at Furman University, said,
Anthony Aumann, a professor of religious studies and philosophy at Fordham University, said he has already caught two students submitting essays written by ChatGPT.
Both Hick and Aumann said the students all eventually confessed to the transgression. Hick's student failed the assignment, and Aumann asked his students to rewrite the essay from scratch.
There were certain "reds" in the essayflags” that hinted at the use of AI. Hick said that in the essay he received, the student referred to several facts that were not mentioned during class and also made one nonsensical statement.
“Word for word, it was a well-written essay,” he said, but upon closer inspection, the statement about the prolific philosopher David Hume “made no sense” and was “completely wrong.”
For Aumann, the chatbot wrote too perfectly. “I think the chatbot writes better than 95% of my students,” he said.
"Suddenly you have someone who doesn'tdemonstrates the ability to think or write at this level, and writes something that fits the bill perfectly, with complex grammar and complex ideas,” he said.
Christopher Bartel, professor of philosophyAppalachian State University, said educational policies were not designed to deal with such plagiarism. If a student decides to persist and deny the use of AI, it can be difficult to prove.
Barthel said the proposed AI detectors work "well, but not perfect."
“They do a statistical analysis of howhow likely is it that the text was generated by AI, so we are in a difficult position if our policies are designed in such a way that we need to have conclusive proof that the essay is a fake,” he said. “If the result is approximately 95%, then there is still a 5% chance that this is not true.”
In Hick's case, although the AI detector site stated,that he was “99% sure that the essay was generated by artificial intelligence,” the teacher felt that he needed recognition from the student himself.
“Recognition was important because everything elselooks like circumstantial evidence,” he said. “With AI-generated content, there is no physical evidence, and physical evidence carries much more weight than circumstantial evidence.”
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