Daniel Lowd
I just had to email my 16-year-old's teacher to explain that he did not use AI for an assignment. (I watched him complete it!)
I also included multiple references for why no one should be using AI detectors in education.
TurnItIn is making $$$$ by lying to schools.
Rob Ricci
@lowd The grifts go even deeper. I was talking to a colleague recently whose college-age son (and all his friends) had been paying some service $30/month to re-write their assignments so that they supposedly wouldn't get caught by "AI detectors"
Daniel Lowd
@ryancoordinator Unfortunately, the immediate lessons are:
1. My teacher doesn’t trust me
2. I live in a world where things like this happen
3. I should make my writing look weirder and less polished so I don’t get accused again.
This mirrors problems many students have faced for years - being accused of cheating because they were stereotyped as not being smart enough to do good work. We are very fortunate/privileged and this whole incident should not have a big impact on my kid.
Ryan Makes, Dreamscaper
@lowd one layer deeper: what are the structural lessons for the student here?
Rich Felker
@lowd @ryancoordinator Lesson 3 unfortunately has real world value now. When I find stuff in search results with the kind of "polished" look matching writing structures taught in schools, I assume it's content farm drivel (LLM or not) and immediately click back. Obvious ESL or ND writing for now is best efficient indicator I've found for authenticity.
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