Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era - The New York Times
Big tech companies and small start-ups are using social media to hype new tools that allow students to trick teachers and A.I. detectors. By Dana Goldstein The videos are all over social media, making students an irresistible offer: Go ahead and let A.I. do your homework — with the latest technology, you won’t get caught. If you hate writing, you can avoid it. Even established ed-tech companies are marketing with a wink and a nod. These kinds of tutorials are now pervasive on TikTok and YouTube. They show students how to use tools known as humanizers and autotypers, which make it easier than ever to cheat. The videos — sometimes labeled ads, sometimes not — target college and high school students. Humanizers rewrite A.I.-produced text to make it sound less robotic, formulaic and trite. Autotypers slowly drip words and sentences into documents, making it appear as if papers were typed at a human pace when in fact, they were produced by A.I. They even fabricate typos, deletions and revis
Big tech companies and small start-ups are using social media to hype new tools that allow students to trick teachers and A.I. detectors. By Dana Goldstein The videos are all over social media, making students an irresistible offer: Go ahead and let A.I. do your homework — with the latest technology, you won’t get caught. If you hate writing, you can avoid it. Even established ed-tech companies are marketing with a wink and a nod. These kinds of tutorials are now pervasive on TikTok and YouTube. They show students how to use tools known as humanizers and autotypers, which make it easier than e
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