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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  2. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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Iowa legislature considering bill to require political diversity/balance in faculty hiring

Besides being a massive violation of academic freedom, it's almost certainly unconstitutional for a state university to mandate this kind of political balance (which would require, among other things, an unconstitutional invasion of the privacy of faculty to elicit their political affiliations).  I assume it won't be passed, and that if it is passed, it will be enjoined by a court right away and then struck down.

(Thanks to Michael Swanson for the pointer.)

UPDATE:  More from CHE.  There's already pushback in the legislature on this nonsense.  Apparently the bill would rely only on voter registration records, exempting from consideration those not registered.

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