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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.
The list is here. It was based, it appears, on a survey of attorneys charged with recruitment. It isn’t quite clear what the base-line is for ratings, such that a school is "underrated." Among the other oddities, it is clear from the comments that Vault permitted those surveyed to rate the law school from which they graduated.
Bill Henderson (Indiana) has more detailed remarks on the Vault study.
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…