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People who are complaining a lot about college students using AI to cheat don't understand how much fraud was going on colleges and in science in general before AI (lemmus.org)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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I had seen people paying for services to write research for them.

I had seen people translate research papers from foreign languages(Like Russian for example) to English to avoid doing any work.

And even much more methods were used in college.

The reality is people can't seem to understand how broken are education systems and how science had flows that are only now brought to light and studied.

While AI made fraud more accessible for sure and made the problems worse, it's only a sign of how much education were broken before it.

In my eyes, the last years put a bright spotlight on degrees worth that a lot of companies had started valuing them less and most probably the value of official degrees will keep falling down as the years pass by.

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago

OP is making the argument that AI is just latest incarnation of plagiarism and I'm glad I don't have to mark coursework any more because it is essentially worthless at this point. Under our current paradigm the only alternative is exams. I've taught good engineers who score highly in tests and some that don't, that ability doesn't translate linearly to real situations. What we learn in a university is rapidly superceded by our work experience and getting wrapped up in exam performance is futile. I would argue that knowing how to learn, curiousity, collaboration and tenacity will serve us better in the long run. High scores are about ego, competition and domination. The reality is that teamwork and slow accrual of knowledge are far more potent in the long run than the lone star that burns brightly but briefly.

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