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Well, it's more like when you're teaching a class of immigrants or high schoolers, and some can barely put sentences together or use commas, but one of them sub
by AStonesThrow 1y ago
Well, it's more like when you're teaching a class of immigrants or high schoolers, and some can barely put sentences together or use commas, but one of them submits a midterm paper that could have been written by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Plagiarism has a long history, and the options are numerous, including using some other student's prior work, or paying a human "homework mill" overseas to research write your report for you. It's usually the differential in styles that will get you noticed, because a teacher gets to know their students and what they're capable of in the classroom.
Also, using a hyphen instead of an em dash isn't "incorrect"; it's a traditional way of writing, because most of us grew up with ASCII, and only the one key on our keyboards. Only a journalism or literature class would be concerned with teaching the distinction and marking points for using those.
I could list about 5-6 signals of LLM generation that I've noticed. Proceeding to investigations and accusations is discretionary, and shouldn't be taken lightly.
- exe34 1y agoInterestingly, as a non-native English speaker, I used to write at a much better level and used a much broader vocabulary than my peers who were native British. My spoken English was very stilted, so presumably I'd have been accused of using AI if they had been around at the time.