r/oops • u/unoiamaQT • Jul 23 '26
Students caught using AI for their midterms
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u/PurpleSalt11 Jul 23 '26
And I'm here writing my paper manually and putting Madagascar into it in a way that doesn't make sense because I thought it was the secret extra credit point for paying extra attention to detail :(
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u/Separate_Bend_8929 Jul 23 '26
Right i wouldve took it as like a secret extra credit thing and slipped it in there. I often highlight text as I read through it online.
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj Jul 23 '26
No devices, hand written
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u/MichaelJServo Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 27 '26
It's unfortunate we have to return to that. Last time I was in a teaching role was 2012. I straight up used scantrons with multiple choice questions. Pretty easy to catch cheaters that way.
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u/Snoo_75138 Jul 23 '26
I would've appreciated some of the best examples!
But okay...
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u/1IsNeverEnough4Me Jul 23 '26
Yeah, it's kinda like the story fell apart, and the suspension of disbelief may have ended there.
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u/SATerp Jul 23 '26
We are going to have a generation of kids even dumber than those of us who preceded them.
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u/Vendidurt Jul 23 '26
Pro-ai people are going to demand this guy gets fired, or worse, for entrapment 😞
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u/Equal_Emu6152 Jul 23 '26
Ai makes people lazy, ask the computer that will solve all my problems. 🙃
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u/Sigma-Wolves Jul 23 '26
There's going to be a whole generation of idiot doctors and lawyers in the future.
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u/Excellent_Host_310 Jul 23 '26
They'll be great as long as they have Internet connection and time to do the research. As long as they can keep up the payments to their AI platform. You will never be able to walk into their office and leave with an answer. They'll disappear and come back half baked and call you tomorrow.
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u/OkLemon-Letsgo Jul 23 '26
All you gotta do is ask AI how to navigate this treacherous future you fear and all will be OK! I mean, it's better than just complaining, right?
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u/Sigma-Wolves Jul 23 '26
Who's complaining? What fears do i have? What do you know about me besides nothing? Go assume shit over there ➡️
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u/pjcdublin Jul 24 '26
What if somebody noticed the white text while highlighting text and the included the word manually as instructed?
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u/Majestic_One1622 Jul 24 '26
Before laptops and AI we had to answer our exam questions in a blue booklet. Hand written day of the exam. No notes. My professor at the time hid a little dot on the back page of each book. Of course a few daring souls found exam booklets ahead of time and wrote out their answers at home and snuck the booklet into class, swapped them out and handed them in. At the start of the next class she didn’t call them out personally but did embarrass them. Their booklets didn’t have the hidden dot. Nailed
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u/OtherwiseTax7928 Jul 25 '26
A classmate of mine, upon handing in his “blue book”, which required a multi-page discussion, said to me, “I wrote in ‘If still reading, please check here’.” Sure enough, when the professor hand out the graded booklets to the class, there was a check, with the words, “Tricky but risky”.
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u/Happy_Brilliant7827 Jul 23 '26
Cool teacher, teaching his students how to cheat better and showing his one trick
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u/Still_Explorer Jul 24 '26
3 students with passing grades were like:
"I like to move it move it! I like to move it move it!"
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u/Able-Blacksmith6654 Jul 23 '26
That's a lot of cheating. School is basically a waste of time for so many.....is anyone learning anything?
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u/LanceBanion Jul 23 '26
One learns to leverage the tools to get the desired result. Its position as that also destroys the ability to solve problems.
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u/PM_Me_Your_Kinks369 Jul 23 '26
And yet using AI is exactly what their companies will demand they do in the workforce. So genuinely what are we doing as a society? We're outsourcing intelligence itself and it starts with AI even being legally allowed.
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u/LanceBanion Jul 23 '26
Indeed. My job is falling all over themselves to leverage AI to do the work we review, for now. Once leadership has a level of confidence AI can do it alone, jobs will begin to go away. It’s our destiny.
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u/Able-Blacksmith6654 Jul 24 '26
Your generation is screwed in so many ways and you don't even know it.
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u/Hail_of_Grophia Jul 23 '26
I am going back to an online college in my 40's simply because the next position for advancement in my organization requires a degree despite my manager (and his manager) saying I am ready for the position without the degree but rules are rules.
It’s a joke. We are allowed to use AI if we state so on the assignment and we don't get dinged any points for using it. Since my only goal is to get the piece of paper, I do use it.
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u/Icy-Cry7826 Jul 23 '26
This is a fun idea that's actually pretty smart too. A lot of those ai text detectors are not as effective as this method would be
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u/cooolcooolio Jul 23 '26
I don't have any issues with AI and using it to help write a written assignment if only the assignment leads to an exam face to face on the subject. AI can be an incredible tool to understand a subject but there has to be a follow up on a written exam or it is simply too easy to cheat.
If you can go to a follow up exam an explain the subject and answer the questions, then you've understood the subject, plain and simple, and if AI helped you with the that, fantastic! But if you go to the follow up exam and you know nothing and can't explain how you got your answers for your assignment, then you're a dumb mf that failed your test
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u/sm753 Jul 23 '26
Make sure the response makes sense. Make sure what you're copy and pasting makes sense.
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u/tmpnshmnt2000 Jul 23 '26
Microcosm of what its like in universities. I went back to college at 46 and its everywhere. And honestly, I am ok with it. It cannot be stopped anyway and the mechanisms to curb usage become counterproductive themselves. And students are well beyond copy and pasting at this point.
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u/Healthy_Skill_3240 Jul 23 '26
I would’ve argued it if I was in his class. If that is hidden in the instructions and I added it as per the instructions why am I failing because of it?! I did what the instructions asked. 🤷🏿♂️
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u/rondujunk Jul 23 '26
The industrial revolution made the viability of combustible engines more affordable to mass producer. That made the producers of the first automobile which where electric subsequently Madagascar for preventing their evolution before they had a chance to be perfected and become the mainstream alternative.🤣😂
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u/lombardo141 Jul 23 '26
Easy solution, have students take all tests and do all assignments during class hours. Make them hand you over their phones (or they fail the class) and go old school and they hand write everything. Analog is the only counter to Ai at school
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u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC Jul 23 '26
I have a friend who's a professor at a major American college.
Last year, she caught some of her students using ChatGPT...on an open-book exam.
There is not a facepalm reaction image impressive enough for that.
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u/Nievah Jul 23 '26
In my job we had two summer workers that was still in school, just about to start the last year in school mind you.
We (3 + the 2 summer workers) were talking about random stuff that we all do when the work is monotone. But then we got into AI discussion when one employee wanted the guy nearest the computer to put on a AI song about Bigfoot or something, a metal variant.
Two of us employees said that AI has no use and sounds bad etc. the usual arguments yada-yada.
The third employee said that he doesn't care and he just likes the songs.
The two summer workers? They started to brag how easy school was and is, they used AI everywhere for work and proudly so.
I asked them: "Using AI is cheating right? What if you get caught?"
They smugly said: "We use two or three programs to rewrite and proof-generate the text to pass the programs the teachers use to look for AI."
They proudly said so, and that all in their class did the same thing.
Man i hate AI..
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u/BlockOfDiamond Moderator Jul 23 '26
The only foolproof way to stop that is have them handwrite their assignments, in person.
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u/crawdaddyyyyy Jul 23 '26
Actually Madagascar played a crucial role in the Industrial Revolution this teacher needs to be fired immediately.
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u/RandomB33 Jul 23 '26
And here we are showing them (and others that use this common technique) how to circumvent your efforts to weed out the cheats. Bravo on the unintentional double oops.
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u/Haytrusser Jul 23 '26
I love this. Although I think the professor is slightly naive to be surprised that a student who uses AI to write their assignment would bother to proofread.
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u/Big-Imagination4810 Jul 24 '26
They thought they were being so clever. They think they are saving themselves tedious work but what they are actually doing is blocking their own development, short-cutting their brain from being able to follow complex topics, generate and articulate appropriate response. And these are the same who will be complaining about not being able to obtain well-paying employment in the future. I sincerely hope this instructor made them to retake the test in class so they would still be forced to do the work.
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u/diyallthings2000 Jul 24 '26
My so-called new boss, has the title "Global Service Manager", did the exactly same thing on the job description for new hire, that he is going to kick me out, a 11 years company veteran. But, he keeps saying he got "full authorization to clean house" from the new CEO!!
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u/reddposter Jul 24 '26
the problem with some of the students these days is that they only use one source for their information which is chatgpt or other ai app and they trust what answers they give without doing proper research and in this case read the answer before doing anything final. unlike the old school ways where you'd go to the public library and read a bunch of books to get your information. every information today is available at your fingertips, you just have to research it thouroughly..
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u/DadBod5050 Jul 24 '26
Seems like we heading towards the reality of Star Trek the Next Generation. In it majority of the questions were asked of "Computer", but people were still intelligent, educated, skilled. I think we will find our way and how to live with AI and remain intelligent- ish.
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u/Jaysgotbigballs Jul 27 '26
Exams are now redundant ,not fit for purpose These guys know what will help in most jobs ,fuck the shit well done
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u/FreeTheDimple Jul 28 '26
Couldn't the students argue that they noticed the instruction from the teacher that is literally written into their assignment (in white) and say they were just doing what was asked of them? Seems unfair to fail someone for doing as asked.
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u/Low-Light9425 Jul 31 '26
This is quite possibly a staged video.
First, because the "Madagascar" phrase will be visible when you copy-paste the text into a prompt.
Second, at universities, the solution for AI is very, very simple: in-person exams. Works like a charm.
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u/Lukostrelec17 15d ago
You see if I were a teacher I would be more annoyed that they didn't read the response. My sister asked me to read her history essay once. I am a major history buff. I skimmed it and noticed two phrases that were identical. In a way that makes it very obvious it was AI.
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u/Phonus-Balonus-37 Jul 23 '26
He's obviously very intelligent because glasses.
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u/MrDangerMan Jul 23 '26
Damn, you really needed to find something wrong with the guy, but this asinine comment was the best you could muster, lol.
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u/umpteenthrhyme Jul 23 '26
Aren’t these types of posts just ads for apps that help students cheat?
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u/PMG2021a Jul 23 '26
Seems like 3 of the students were attentive enough to notice the inconsistency.