• Schtefanz@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    Shouldn’t be the question why students used chatgpt in the first place?

    chatgpt is just a tool it isn’t cheating.

    So maybe the author should ask himself what can be done to improve his course that students are most likely to use other tools.

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      1 month ago

      ChatGPT is a tool that is used for cheating.

      The point of writing papers for school is to evaluate a person’s ability to convey information in writing.

      If you’re using a tool to generate large parts of the paper, the teacher is no longer evaluating you, they’re evaluating chatGPT. That’s dishonest in the student’s part, and circumventing the whole point of the assignment.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      It’s the same argument as the one used against emulators. The actual emulator may not be illegal, but they are overwhelmingly used to violate the law by the end user.

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Sounds like something ChatGPT would write : perfectly sensible English, yet the underlying logic makes no sense.

      • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        The implication I gathered from the comment was that if students are resorting to using chatgpt to cheat, then maybe the teacher should try a different approach to how they teach.

        I’ve had plenty of awful teachers who try to railroad students as much as possible, and that made for an abysmal learning environment, so people would cheat to get through it easier. And instead of making fundamental changes to their teaching approach, teachers would just double down by trying to stop cheating rather than reflect on why it’s happening in the first place.

        Dunno if this is the case for the teacher mentioned in the original post, but the response is the vibe I got from the comment you replied to, and for what it’s worth, I fully agree. Spending time and effort on catching cheaters doesn’t help there be less cheaters, nor does it help people like the class more or learn better. Focusing on getting students enjoyment and engagement does reduce cheating though.