Study: 94% Of AI-Generated College Writing Is Undetected By Teachers
by Derek Newton for Forbes
It’s been two years since ChatGTP made its public debut, and in no sector has its impact been more dramatic and detrimental than in education. Increasingly, homework and exam writing are being done by generative AI instead of students, turned in and passed off as authentic work for grades, credit, and degrees.
It is a serious problem that devalues the high school diploma and college degree. It is also sending an untold number of supposedly qualified people into careers and positions such as nurses, engineers, and firefighters, where their lack of actual learning could have dramatic and dangerous consequences.
But by and large, stopping AI academic fraud has not been a priority for most schools or educational institutions. Unbelievably, a few schools have actively made it easier and less risky to use AI to shortcut academic attainment, by allowing the use of AI but disallowing the reliable technology that can detect it.
Turning off those early warning systems is a profound miscalculation because, as new research from the U.K. points out once again, teachers absolutely cannot or do not spot academic work that has been spit out by a chatbot.
The paper, by Peter Scarfe and others at the University of Reading in the U.K., examined what would happen when researchers created fake student profiles and submitted the most basic AI-generated work for those fake students without teachers knowing. The research team found that, “Overall, AI submissions verged on being undetectable, with 94% not being detected. If we adopt a stricter criterion for “detection” with a need for the flag to mention AI specifically, 97% of AI submissions were undetected.”
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