AI Detection Is a Business. But Should It Be Faculty Business?
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Wondering how much you should trust AI-detection tools? Consider this cautionary and true tale:
One Thursday morning, a student at a large research university received the following alert: You may have violated the university’s honesty policy. Her professor — suspicious after reading one of the student’s discussion-board comments that had seemed too insightful — decided to check three of her posts using two AI-detection tools. The post that had triggered the professor’s suspicions had a 50-percent probability of being generated by AI, according to GPTZero, while the student’s other two posts stood at 35 percent and 5 percent. Copyleaks, however, found that AI had generated 100 percent of the content in all three posts.
Originally published: May 2, 2024
Author: José Antonio Bowen
Position: Former President
Institution: Goucher College
Published by: The Chronicle of Higher Ed