The best way, so far, to prove that it's not written by ChatGPT is to show history using Google Docs. It's probably going to be the new "show your work" that math teachers went through during the rise of calculators.

The next phase is for AI to grade all these essays regardless of how they are produced. So you'll end up with some version of that scene from Real Genius where it's just machines talking to machines.

One solution to this is very old school: in-person exams, hand-written, with no access to devices.

This whole thing is moot because precisely those subjects in which AI is most applicable are the ones whose graduates will most likely have their jobs taken away by AI anyway.

Like, at least let AI earn you the grades while you're in school, if it's going to put you out of a job once you're out, ya know?

https://archive.ph/c1bG3

The AI-generated essay will be the new baseline. If you can’t argue beyond what an AI can or will generate, you haven’t broken through the NPC threshold.

Wow, this is so different from my own experience (university professor here). I made using generative AI a requirement in my classes. It led to some inventive work, though most students are still figuring it out. I didn't make it central to the class, but will in the future. That being said, I don't assign an essay-type assignments but even if I did, I wouldn't use an AI checker like those mentioned in the article. At the start of the semester in January, I was shocked at how few students had actively used any AI tools (maybe 10%). At the end of the semester in May, I was shocked at how few of my colleagues had (25%).

Grading is irrelevant to work performance, exactly like any other metric we try to measure when evaluating software developers' performance.

The only sane alternative is demonstrating skills through completing projects. Hopefully we move towards more than that

I was hoping this would be another cautionary article on how ai likes to cheat rather than cheating using ai.