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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.
They are: Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins), Noel Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center), Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins), Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern), Liam Murphy (NYU), Peter Singer (Princeton), and Oystein Linnebo (Oslo). In addition, philosopher Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin) was elected in the Education section of the Academy.
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