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Re: AI Homework

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> Should he be made to go to a mine & dig out coal for graphite in order for it to count as his work? That argument doesn't make any sense. There are restrictions for any homework, some explictly given by their professor (such as the deadline), and some implicitly known from general academic guidelines and common sense (such as "not using a photocopier in an art class"). Obviously mining coal is not among those restr…

> That argument doesn't make any sense. There are restrictions for any homework, some explictly given by their professor (such as the deadline), and some implicitly known from general academic guidelines and common sense (such as "not using a photocopier in an art class"). Obviously mining coal is not among those restrictions. ...is it? "general academic guidelines and common sense" is a subjective term that is (cont…

I wouldn't call myself neurodivergent, yet I don't support relying on common sense either. That being said, you can't make me believe that a student (neurodivergent or otherwise) would assume that they are expected to mine coal as part of their homework.

If a neurodivergent person uses a photocopier because they thought that it would be fine, then yeah, I'd understand that. The person who started this thread stated that they were perfectly aware that they were cheating, though.

Re: AI Homework

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> To put it with maximum extremity, should a student be able to turn-in a traced photograph for their homework in a life drawing class? Vermeer may have done effectively that and painted projections (from a camera obscura or similar device). He's still widely considered one of the greatest artists of the Dutch Golden Age.

You're looking for a Camera Lucida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_lucida A modern version of it can be found https://neolucida.com

Possibly. It's not proven that Vermeer used any device, though it does seem likely. The Camera Lucida was extremely obscure in Vermeer's time, so it's less likely he used one than the (much older and simpler) Camera Obscura.

Re: AI Homework

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There are already several services that claim to detect GPTx with high reliability. I’ve been testing originality.ai and it’s success rate at detecting unedited GPT3, Jasper, and ChatGPT output has been 100% so far.

I doubt any of these GPTx detection services have a 100% success rate. It's important to be realistic about what they can and can't do. If one were seeking to fool one of these GPTx detection services, it could be as simple as adding a few mispellings or a personal anecdote.

At the moment, defeating the detection is as simple as running the GPT3 output through Quillbot. It's an arms race though. False positives are a massive problem & 100% successful detection overall is unlikely, agreed.

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And it's inspiration of plenty of media and fashion designers. I think this example goes against his conclusion.

I am a bit puzzled by these comments. "It is an inspiration for many media," sure, for historical television programs, certainly not for the everyday clothing of our times. Let's take men's suits. They were made of heavy wool (today heavy wool is demodé, and rightly so because it is very uncomfortable), with three or four buttons (today 3-buttons are rarely seen, and rightly so, except for the 3-roll-2, which is not…

Men have a very limited wardrobe range, and most of them does not care about it. You have to look a the woman clothes.

Re: AI Homework

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The Antikythera mechanism says hello.

People didn't forget how read the stars because they were using their Antikytheras too much.

> Yes, but now that we have a tool, it will never go away.

Tools can go away. They can come back, too. But they can go away. I would also point to the Japanese experience with firearms. But I'm guessing you already know about that too.

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