this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
345 points (100.0% liked)

World News

47530 readers
2323 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

Thousands of university students in the UK have been caught misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools in recent years, while traditional forms of plagiarism show a marked decline, a Guardian investigation can reveal.

A survey of academic integrity violations found almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating using AI tools in 2023-24, equivalent to 5.1 for every 1,000 students. That was up from 1.6 cases per 1,000 in 2022-23.

Figures up to May suggest that number will increase again this year to about 7.5 proven cases per 1,000 students – but recorded cases represent only the tip of the iceberg, according to experts.

The data highlights a rapidly evolving challenge for universities: trying to adapt assessment methods to the advent of technologies such as ChatGPT and other AI-powered writing tools.

(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

it is a paradigm shift.

what they learn from this is to make sure to not get caught in the future.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Should be expelled and banned for life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

At least expelled. But this is sooo damn hard to enforce. I mean, my perspective is from germany, but we also deal with plagiarism by ChatGPT&Co sometimes, especially in Bachelors or Master Theses. I never saw a student in expelled for any form of plagiarism in my three years at the university. Worst case was always that he or she failed the thesis or course, because the university is so damn afraid of any lawsuit that maybe could occur.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The output is often really good, even for STEM questions about niche topics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not always. I teach a module where my lectures are fully coursework assessed and my god, a lot of the submissions are clearly AI. It's super hard to prove though and I just mark the same as any other, but half-halluvinated school-grade garbage scores pretty damn low.

(edit: this is because we are trained on how to write questions AI struggles with. It makes writing exams harder, but it is possible. AI is terrible at chemistry. My personal favourite being when Google AI told me the melting point of pyrrole was about -2000C, so colder than absolute zero)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Of course it is only a tool, the same way an untrained person can not operate an excavator without causing lots of damage. I just wanted to say how impressed I often am at how good the response is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Bold move voicing such an opinion on Lemmy! (I agree with you, and you are also objectively correct. There are also many things it is terrible at, but if one knows what one is doing, that really doesn’t detract from the quality stuff)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Oh man the BBC is surely already preparing for Adolescence: rise of the robots

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (10 children)

If ChatGPT can effectively do the work for you, then is it really necessary to do the work? Nobody saying to go to the library and find a book instead of letting a search engine do the work for you. Education has to evolve and so does the testing. A lot of things GPT’s can’t do well. Grade on that.

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Exmatriculation that should be

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›