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Maybe we need to start doing like my university's math and engineering departments did to combat plagiarism: keep a very long history of automatic Bayesian and
by hi-v-rocknroll 3y ago
Maybe we need to start doing like my university's math and engineering departments did to combat plagiarism: keep a very long history of automatic Bayesian and structural similarity analysis of every electronic homework and lab submission from a multitude of participating campuses.
Sounds like a viable startup business idea IYAM but would need institutional and/or platform champions for initial beta users.
- analog31 3y agoAre they allowed to circulate these student assignments under FERPA?
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoIIRC, the system didn't exchange plaintext to nodes on other campuses. It passed signatures and each institution maintained their own collections for definitive comparison because the most common case was submitting someone else's work from another year. It was the era of barely high speed internet. Perhaps with the advent of generative LLMs, this will assist in the generation of entirely personalized university assignments and exams making "replay attack" cheating impossible. Hopefully, LLMs will also semi-automate correctness verification of exams and correct answers.