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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.
Readers, what is your gender?
UPDATE: So with over 1500 votes cast since Friday, 89% of respondents were male, 11% were female. About 16% of tenure-stream faculty are female (at least in the US), though my impression is a higher percentage of current graduate students are female. It would be interesting to know the gender breakdown at other blogs. (Far more than 11% of commenters here are female, interestingly.)
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