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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.
What an eccentric list! A mix of philosophers, economists, politicians, historians, activists, and others–some very good, some fashionable, some not so good. Identity politics and "diversity" seem to have been the overriding consideration for inclusion; I didn't see any Marxists, for example. Everyone should write in "Robert Paul Wolff" if they vote!
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