r/mildlyinfuriating • u/relaqz • 9h ago

ಠ_ಠ Caught our exam grader pasting every essay into ChatGPT

Not a single word was read per grade.

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u/alaxens 8h ago

That was my first thought, was checking to see if they were written with AI

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u/CreativeName233223 7h ago

I wouldn't say checking so much as rolling the dice on whether it is flagged as AI. I tested several of these tools and they are dogshit. Many flag things like the Bible and the US Constitution as being written by AI.

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u/alaxens 5h ago

Maybe, I read an article on how professors put invisible font into questions to see if they are copied and pasted over into chat gpt. If they did this would find out pretty quick.

College must be wild now compared to when I went 30 years ago.

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u/CreativeName233223 5h ago

The kind of AI checking tools being discussed wouldn't catch something like that. The check the professor/TA would need to do in that case would just be to check for whatever expected nonsense would result from their hidden prompt. So, if they put a hidden prompt to change the essay to an ad for dog biscuits part way through the essay about the Roman empire before resuming, all they would need to do is open the essay, press Ctrl+f, and then search for the words 'dog' and 'biscuit' and then read the results (if any) to see if it was somehow actually relevant but just coincidentally tangentially related to their hidden prompt.