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by Spivak 1132 days ago
This is an "everything sucks all around situation" because since real things are tied to academic performance you have to weed out dishonesty for fairness but also the power disparity between student/teacher and the black box nature of the detection makes it impossible to actually prove your innocence.

I wish more than anything that the availability of AI will at some point force schools to restructure how classes work to make cheating like this a non-issue. Higher education is actually unbelievably horrible at actually educating. I only realized that once I graduated and on a whim wanted to learn about something that requires university level expertise. If you're not there for the credential it's a monumental waste of time. If classes were designed for students who wanted to be there and the grades were only for your benefit and not used as a target for anything you might actually have engaged learners.