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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.
…an academic room, which seems to be attracting a number of philosophers who haven't used academia.edu. Any reason to prefer one to the other? Curious what people's experience has been of one or both.
BL: I am happy to answer your question (which is based on a misunderstanding, but please e-mail me). I can't post an answer, due to collegial obligations.
Academic Room is a content platform for philosophy and other disciplines, while Academia is a peer-to-peer social network. If you are interested in a specific disciplinary orientation and want to curate content, then the former is an attractive option. I have had enough of social networks and they seem to be a big waste of time.
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