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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.
At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…
…in my opinion, anyway. Glad to hear yours in the comments (click on the category, "Great Moments in Obscure Rock 'n' Roll" to see this year's selections). Here's mine (with apologies to Warpig, Toad and U.F.O. who almost made it):
Sir Lord Baltimore, "Hard Rain Fallin'"
Band of Joy, "I Got to Find My Baby"
Dirty Tricks, "Wait Till Saturday"
I'd never heard that Warpig song before. It does sound suspiciously similar to Deep Purple's' 'Fireball'. Ritchie Blackmore has admitted to ripping off other people's riffs for Deep Purple songs like 'Black Night', so I wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened in this case, too.
Happy holidays, Brian.
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