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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.
V. Alan White, a philosopher at the University of Wisconsin at Manitowoc, writes:
Quo vadis? With Wisconsin becoming the Wississippi version of “Walker: Taxes Ranger”, and Texas itself dissolving into the Wild Wild West minus the winning Robert Conrad, where would we turn? Are there short-recoil blow-back semiautomatic mechanisms of rationality available to us?
Amusingly, but aptly, said.
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