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View submission: Study: 94% Of AI-Generated College Writing Is Undetected By Teachers
I genuinely think the alternative of "giving up on real writing" is kind of a valid option. This is the same thing that has been happening in math as calculators and other technology have become accessible and better we gave up on doing calculations.
Now, speaking as a high school math teacher, the level we gave up is too far. It has resulted in some students who won't even multiply or divide by 10 without plugging it in a calculator, they have no sense for how big or small various numbers are, and they still don't know how to use the calculators... (Many of them literally just ask their phone verbally because they don't know a fraction is just division). These are obviously consequences, but there are upsides.
I teach a statistics course and instead of focusing on tedious computation (think standard deviation of 40 numbers) we can instead plug it into Excel or Google Sheets and then we can focus on the interpretation and meaning. We still do a little tedious computation, but then we get to focus on bigger picture ideas, and we get to use real-world data that would have been too big to use without technology. Now, will some students still need to understand the formulas so they can revise them for various purposes or code with them? Yes. But most don't. It will take time, and there are things that will be lost, but I assume it will eventually be accepted and there will also be things gained. Instead of "write this paper on ______", it can be "here are 4 ai papers on ______. Examine the tone, content, clarity, etc. of each and pick the best one". Just like with math we will still need some people doing real writing too, but probably not the majority of the population.
Also, building off other posts, we know when students cheat, but we are expected to be cops/detectives/lawyers when proving it.
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