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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 10 months ago

Am I wrong in thinking student can still generate an essay and then copy it by hand?

[-] CrimsonFlash@lemmy.ca 54 points 10 months ago

Not during class. Most likely a proctored exam. No laptops, no phones, teacher or proctor watching.

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

…then why can’t you do that with a school laptop that can’t access the web…?

[-] Neve8028@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Because laptops cost money lol

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

And so do colleges. If they don’t want to invest $2000 every 5/6 years for a hundred dumpster windows 95 PCs it shouldn’t be the paying student to suffer.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Only if you memorize it. In which case, why not just memorize the test material?

[-] Axxi@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

My first thought was exactly this.

[-] drekly@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Sounds like effort, I'm making a font out of my handwriting and getting a 3d printer to write it

[-] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

Obviously that is the next step for the technically inclined, but even the less inclined may be capable of generating them copying to save time and brain effort.

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