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
    link
    English
    4811 months ago

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

    • @CrimsonFlash@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      5711 months ago

      Not during class. Most likely a proctored exam. No laptops, no phones, teacher or proctor watching.

      • @Syrc@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -111 months ago

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

          • @Syrc@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -111 months 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
      link
      fedilink
      English
      511 months ago

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

    • @drekly@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -111 months ago

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

      • @Rozz
        link
        English
        211 months 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.