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To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
Indeed, we should. This new 527 group is putting the ad at the link in to circulation, and soliciting support for more. You would be forgiven for thinking that they believe the only deaths that count are American, but as a political matter (and given the general moral indifference to the miseries of non-Americans in this country) this is probably a correct tactical choice. Anyway, do check them out.
(Thanks to Tamar Gendler for the pointer.)
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