from what ive seen on some reddit posts, they USE AI to accuse the student of writing in AI.
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Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks agowell how would you verify wether a thesis was written by AI? Mind that accusations are a serious matter, so “i guess it sorta looks like AI” or a percent number spat out by some unreliable LLM-detection AI isnt going to cut it
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
well, not sure if it works the same everywhere in the world, but here, you first write the graduation thesis and then you have to publicly defend it.
if the defense committee (or is it an attack committee, since it is the student who is on defense? :D) can’t ask questions in a way to find out whether the student actually wrote the paper and understands the topic, then what fucking pseudo-scientific field is that? (and the answer indeed is - it is economics 😂)
danzabia@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Then the student could just ask the AI to simulate a thesis defense and learn answers to the most likely questions.
The funny thing is, they would actually learn the material this way, through a kind of osmosis. I remember writing cheat sheets in college and finding I didn’t need it by the end.
So there are potential use cases, but not if the university doesn’t acknowledge it and continues asking for work that can be simply automated.
14th_cylon@lemm.ee 1 week ago
while my opinion of economy as a field is not very high, i still have high enough opinion of any teacher to believe they do outperform shitty ai…