Just got back from Spring Break, and my to-do list this week includes failing three students in my freshman-level academic writing class for using AI to write their papers.

[droinfl@mstdn.party]

Just got back from Spring Break, and my to-do list this week includes failing three students in my freshman-level academic writing class for using AI to write their papers. I used white font to implant some "invisible" instructions on the assignment sheet, so when they upload it or cut-n-paste it into an LLM, the bot follows the secret input, et voila!
BUSTED!
I'll be so glad to retire in May and never have to deal w/ this BULLSHIT ever again.
#teaching #writing
#HigherEducation
#University

[bazkie@beige.party]

@DrOinFL that's a nice trick! well done

[leslieburns@esq.social]

@DrOinFL Bravo! And it sucks that you have to deal with that.

[kimlockhartga@beige.party]

@DrOinFL amazing. I fear for education.

As an opposite example, that is, of profs not reading what students have written, my mom had two ways to tell. She had a prof who didn't bother to read her work, once he knew she could do it. She starting putting a tiny dot of glue on each page to see if he even opened her paper. At one point, she was adding entire sections of the Pledge of Allegiance and the Declaration of Independence to see if he noticed. And she was an English major, so writing papers was a big deal.

[d3jabr3w@beige.party]

@DrOinFL Thank you for your diligence! I'm afraid for my grandkids' educations.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@DrOinFL

a million years back, i remember one of my high school english teachers bemoaning the death of writing skills in my generation. she must be spinning in her grave at AI "assisted" writing...

[appagalcrochet@mstdn.social]

@DrOinFL Fecking genius!

[zersiax@cupoftea.social]

@jussi_og @DrOinFL I applaud this creativity Super quick note, please don't do that if you ever have screen reader users in your class. Screen readers don't distinguish between font colors, so your instructions would be clear as day AND just look like regular text to such a student. Unfortunately in some respects we can't have nice things

[notasnark@mastodon.social]

@DrOinFL I considered doing a similar thing during online developer interviews. Never got to try it out though.