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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.
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
The first stories from Iraqi eyewitnesses of the assault on Falluja are beginning to come out. Pretty brutal. Lots of civilians left, but you can’t expect to evacuate the entire population of a city of a quarter million. Oh well. Lots of eggs apparently need to be broken to make the delicious omelet of Iraqi freedom!
Read the whole thing. (If you like you can bypass LA Times registration using this account ID & password). Found through Eric Umansky.
Marcus Stanley
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