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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Isn't this kind of ableist? I remember when I was in school I had special accommodations to type instead of write, because I had wrists too weak to write legibly, but fingers fast enough to type expediently, they legitimately thought that I was a really stupid kid, until they realized that my spelling tests were not incorrect.

They just couldn't read that I had spelled it correctly. Somehow I wrote the word fly, and the teacher mistook my y for a v. I went from being the dumbest kid to the smartest kid as soon as the accommodation was put in place.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Universities have accomodation systems for issues like this. People with disabilities can go to the accomodations office and get what they need to be able to do the work

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Joke's on you, I can't write by hand without severe pain after a short while!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

For this case you can get an assistant to write for you while you narrate

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The best part is there are hand writing generating programs or even web pages that convert text to gcode allowing you to use a 3d printer to write things out. In theory it should be really hard to pass it off as being human written, let alone match your own writing, but I'm sure it will only get better. I think there are even models to try to match someone's writing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you going to bring your 3d printer into your university's exam hall to write your final?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The problem with those programs is that you do not always know what the tests are going to be.

Also, it'd be hard to pull out the sheet if you have to store your bags away from you and have to empty your pockets.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Waiting for 100% oral exams to make a comeback.

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