For those that didn't see the rest of this tweet, Frankie Hawkes is in fact a dog. A pretty cute dog, for what it's worth.
Btw, this is an old trick to cheat the automated CV processing, which doesn't work anymore in most cases.
My college workflow was to copy the prompt and then "paste without formatting" in Word and leave that copy of the prompt at the top while I worked, I would absolutely have fallen for this. :P
I have lots of ethical issues with ai which is why I'm so angry about prohibitions. They need to teach you guys how to use it and where you shouldn't. It's a calculator and can be a good tool. Force them to adapt.
Hot take if you can't distinguish a student's paper from a GPT generated one you're teaching in a deeply unserious place
Tell me you haven't reviewed classmates' papers without telling me you haven't reviewed classmates' papers.
Some of the papers I've read from my classmates make me wonder how they got out of high school, let alone into university or (!!) medical school. There are a lot of people who cannot write decently to save their lives that are still somehow in academia.
This is me. Writing gave me so much anxiety in HS and I really should have started keeping a journal or something but I didn't. I devoured books as a kid but still I struggled with putting ideas on paper. Once got so upset at a boyscout event where I had to write an essay for a merit badge that I threw up.
I can write a comment or even effort-post just fine, and I can type 100 wpm, it's just something about structured writing that makes me feel Ill.
Some of the papers I've read from my classmates make me wonder how they got out of high school,
Not beating the allegations about unseriouness
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Just to be clear, I'm totally shitposting
I don't think this is true, depending on the task they can be extremely hard to spot. You especially don't want to accuse a student of cheating using AI without very concrete evidence.
If you say that I assume you either only used older services or your prompt skills are lacking.
ChatGPT 4 is really advanced and can create long coherent fluid texts (with source references). You can also ask it to write as a student or any other target and it will match writing styles quite well.
I don't get it (not a native English speaker). Someone cares to ELI5? Thanks a lot in advance.
Edit: thank you everybody for explaining :-)
A lot of students have started using ChatGPT to write papers for them. This person is saying they leave directions for an AI text generator in their directions that are hidden from view but which would be observable to the AI scanning it. So any paper turned in with that specific alteration would be almost certainly from a cheater.
The professor hides white text on a white background to catch potential cheaters. The actual assignment is written in black text. If the student has followed the instructions that are written in white, this is a good indication that they may have cheated, because human eyes won't see the white text against a white background, while a computer program writing a paper for the student will see the white text and follow the additional instructions.
https://xcancel.com/KellyMSocia/status/1849862692640837755#m
