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Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
- Kaibeezy 4y agohttps://archive.ph/WAJjp https://archive.ph/WAJjp
- YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago>> Tess Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Honorlock, said it was not the company’s role to advise schools on how to deal with behavior flagged by its product. A great illustration of extremely dodgy and completely untrustworthy behaviour: when someone confronts you with concerns about the ethics of your software, you respond with an attempt to deflect the blame onto the user, who bought it from you.
- Kaibeezy 4y ago___s don’t ___ people, people do.
- asmoss 4y ago
- orionblastar 4y agoProctoring software is used for anticheating. It invades your privacy and has false positives. It watches the eyes, but what if you write the problem on scratch paper and look down at it then up to the screen? Does it flag it as cheating?
- BizarroLand 4y agoNo, I've been on the receiving end of proctoring software. They do some basic screening, like looking around the room and using a mirror to make sure the web cam is authentic and connected to the screen, but there are still ways to work around it. Even something as simple as running the software from a virtual machine would be enough to bypass it, and then you could get assistance from another person searching the answers up for you.
- cwillu 4y agoThe notion of faking a feature until you figure out how to make it for real, has real world consequences when it becomes just part of the background approach to product development. So what that the problem you're aiming to solve is impossible, that all the techniques you can think of to try don't actually do what you need them to? Implement them anyway, maybe some combination of them will eventually stick. If you don't, you'll lose, well, fail to gain market share!