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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.
…such as reading to your children. Ruchira Paul, who sent this to me, aptly quipped: "I wonder if we should even talk to them."
UPDATE: Samuel Rickless (UC San Diego) kindly sends along a link to a more nuanced discussion of the views in question.
ANOTHER: Also a propos our topic du jour, though one wonders how his nostalgia for the 1950s squares with what anyone who remembers Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd might have thought of that era.
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