I work in university student advice so directly with complaints, appeals, disciplinary that kind of thing.
AI in most HE institutions is being suggested as a tool to aide research but it’s being abused and that’s being picked up. In class assessment is probably the best way to support it. Though I get emails that are obviously written by it. Which I find odd, appeals and complaints are also used to write it but I am cool with that.
As for the connect between University and college that gap was bridged somewhat but since coursework was axed you’ve effectively created that gap again.
I am here to answer any question you want on Universities it’s my sector after all. Universities have done ok adapting it feels but they were too slow on alternative assessment and that’s burnt many fingers.
I was on an alternative assessment working group in 2013 in my previous place, apparently that group is still working to implement changes. University process works as this has always been the way we do it especially with Academics
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^^^
This is clearly written by ChatGPT
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Yup. Apart from it being most unlike matty’s usual idiosyncratic writing style, the “I am here to answer any question” is a dead give away.
Maybe the only way around it, in terms of final exams, is to go back to assignments written on paper in the classroom.
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Problem with that is have you seen the handwriting skills nowadays. I know a fair few modules have in class assessment via computers which is a way around that. Disciplinary meetings are quite good as they sometimes act as a way to see how much the student knows. It’s obvious those who have copied word for word and who know their onions.
I would assume technology would be able to spot someone’s writing style. However I am not aware of how turnitin is adapting.
Anyhow as a service you’d expect we may be under threat but our work load is increasing.
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The alarm bells should be ringing everywhere. Instead, the majority of people are ‘oooh, did you see that vid trending’. Most people don’t even know who’s controlling their content or even that it’s being controlled.
The idiom of the frog being boiled without jumping out springs to mind. Society is slowly sleep walking it’s way to giving up the ability to think independently while celebrating influencers, idolising and living vicariously
through rich people for things they could never hope to achieve while ogling the latest OnlyFans sensation.
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Agree with your post, but… well you know.
A good article, and the receipts to get out of this are well-known: tax the billionaires. It’s good that more and more people in the US see billionaires as a direct threat for their democracy, but I wonder if it’s not too late for them already. In an authoritarian system, the majority of citizens doesn’t count anymore. Ask people in Russia, Turkey, China etc.
European democratic countries should pay careful attention though, if they don’t want to go down the same path as the US.
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The taxation is an issue given the way that most of these people get their compensation, but the bigger issue is Citizen’s United and the overall approach to money in politics. As long as that does not get addressed the Billionaires will have disproportionate and socially damaging influence
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the temerity of this asshole
As embarrassingly stupid as you think this is in the first part, you have to get the latter part
https://x.com/Mindset4Money_X/status/2045593737640697998?s=20
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