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Brown professor class AI cheating

Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat

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“Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, i…”

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Casey Fiesler: Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But …
Casey Fiesler: This data is absolutely wild. The mean midterm score was 96, and the mean final score was 48. The *mode* midterm score was 100. The professor says that he intentionally made the midterm harder, and…
Casey Fiesler: Brown University also just released a report on gen AI based in part on a survey of students. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul... 88% of undergrads indicated concerns about the impact of gen AI use o…
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Casey Fiesler on why LLMs don't really cite their sources

5 experts · 29 posts · 4d ago
Casey Fiesler: Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources"…
Casey Fiesler: A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was cons…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 1d ago
Casey Fiesler: A common Q I get on social media is: how do I get into tech/AI ethics as a field/for a job? I would love some help with this! What is some helpful advice here that (a) is not about academia or even…
Casey Fiesler: What kinds of jobs would you point folks to after that?
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2 experts · 4 posts · 7d ago
Casey Fiesler: If anyone would like to write a dissertation about my social media comments I have some theories. But the funniest phenomenon right now is the number of men who are leaving comments I’m 90% sure we…
Amy Hoy: i understand it when they're trying to market something. (i don't accept it. but a profit motive is, at least, very clear.) i don't understand it AT ALL when there's no actual gain. bc they *don't*…
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