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.

  • @Rozz
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    481 year ago

    Am I wrong in thinking student can still generate an essay and then copy it by hand?

      • @Syrc@lemmy.world
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        -11 year ago

        …then why can’t you do that with a school laptop that can’t access the web…?

          • @Syrc@lemmy.world
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            -11 year ago

            And so do colleges. If they don’t want to invest $2000 every 5/6 years for a hundred dumpster windows 95 PCs it shouldn’t be the paying student to suffer.

    • Flying Squid
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      51 year ago

      Only if you memorize it. In which case, why not just memorize the test material?

    • @drekly@lemmy.world
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      -11 year ago

      Sounds like effort, I’m making a font out of my handwriting and getting a 3d printer to write it

      • @Rozz
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        21 year ago

        Obviously that is the next step for the technically inclined, but even the less inclined may be capable of generating them copying to save time and brain effort.