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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.
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…
…while the drop in high-end LSAT scores is steeper.
I'll be on a reduced blogging schedule for the summer (look for one or two items per week), but will update the lateral moves list periodically as well as start the new one in August. (Mike Simkovic, who has posting privileges here as well, may be posting as well in the summer.)
Thanks for reading, and I wish everyone a productive and pleasant summer.
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…