Happy cake day!

Can you elaborate?

These places that went all in on hyped up “AI” and dystopian surveillance can take their lumps. They’re “realizing” what they’ve been told from day one.

Universities started pushing AI as a learning tool. They pay for subscription AI services for enrolled students. So I'm not sure this isn't them doing this to themselves.

What are you on about? This is about how universities have a hard time managing AI use and misuse by students. Have they sown those AI tools?

The essence of an academic paper is that a student shows that they have learned all the goals that were set for that course or courses. If a student lets tgere paper be generated by AI, they can not prove that they have learned those goals. That is why universitues have (or should have) strict AI guidelines, so that students know which kinds of use are allowed and which are not.

This is a hard nut to crack. Of course you will see overfitting and underfitting until someone somewhere fimds a universal approach. I personally think AI-detection tools are shit, but you cannot fault universities for trying it. My university handles AI fraud manually, with a committe. That is very labor intensive. We only have a couple hundred students, but if you have thousands, it quickly becomes impossible.

A lot of unis give students free AI access. Companies like Microsoft bundle Copilot into their education packages, so that students will graduate without learning to write essays on their own. Then they’ll be working, paying professionals who can’t go without AI because they didn’t actually earn their degrees. It’s in the business model.