“Why do they do this?” he asks. Because you don’t fail them. Give them a big fat 0 on the assignment, no need to even tell them why.
Then if they beg nicely, let the flunked students do a make-up assignment in the classroom, in front of you, with a pencil and paper and their phones turned off.
One of the best techniques for catching llm use is interviewing, which is now an approved technique in my jurisdiction.
They often don’t have any idea what it is they’ve included, and cannot explain it or offer any further detail.
This was my entire technique for when i was studying for a test. I would do the practice test, then read through whatever I got incorrect and had to be able to explain fully what the correct answer was, why, and what made the other answers wrong.
Made the tests a breeze and my oral exam later cake.
Because I could explain it. I knew what i was talking about.
Nice
Widespread interviewing as a practice would really set a tone right?
“Yeah guys you can always use ChatGPT in her class but you HAVE to read and learn all the original source material FIRST”
Teachers: hehehe yesss yess learnnnn children
(Pair with on-the-spot writing tests with some accommodation for, IDK, various scenarios… shy kids, English Language Learners (ESL), etc.)
This is a great example of how so-called AI is increasing the amount of work people have to do, not reducing it
Brother-in-law teaches AP English at a fancy high school. Assigned his favorite author whom he studied extensively in grad school. Kid turns in essay with fake quotes, obviously AI. BIL meets with student. Asks if they used LLM to write paper. “No.” “Ok I’ll give you 30 seconds to find any of these quotes in the book before I call your parents and give you a zero.” Tears flow. Parents called. F obtained. Boss teacher move.
Please put the link in the url section and copy paste some of the text as the body. It usually fetchs a title and picture on its own.
This is not the best format.
Best use case I’ve found for LLMs in writing is having it make fanfic type of stories with varying levels of fantasy. Since most people have the idea of what they want in their head and in the prompt, having it pointlessly embellish and fabricate details along the lines that have been prompted is perfect.
I stumbled across a sexy slash fic generator which I enjoy putting my wife and mine names into, themed around us watching TV and falling asleep on the couch . Never fails to deliver some hot garbage nonsense that I text her through the work day.
@inb4_found_the_vegan seductively picks up the remote with an eyebrow raised, “you ready for round two?” as she SLAMS the play button and another steamy episode of Jury Duty begins, (Wife) sensually snores in excitement.
Yeah exactly, for that level of stupid entertainment, LLMs are perfect suitable. There’s little else I would really trust it for.
