Posted on 10/19/2024 9:35:28 AM PDT by Rio
Shortly after their son received a D grade for using AI on a history paper at Hingham High School, his parents filed suit — claiming that “artificial intelligence is here to stay.”
The Harris boy and his partner were able to get only into the preliminary stages of the project when Petrie’s “spot check” of their work revealed the presence of AI-generated content. The teacher accused them of cheating, according to the complaint.
Petrie and Andrew Hoey, the head of the school’s history department, told the students they would have to each start new projects separately, could not use any of their previous work, and could not use AI at all.
The student at the heart of the complaint received a 0/20 for the notes portion of his project, a 0/30 on the rough draft portion and a 65/100 on the final paper — a D, “despite the fact he was forced to restart the project from scratch and never having received a grade this low on a final written project.”
The complaint argues that the use of AI was not explicitly barred by the teacher or the school’s Academic Integrity policy in effect at the time in question.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Agreed.
AI now has a very mechanistic style—tends to easily drift into cliches.
On various Reddit groups where I post from time to time I have accused others of flunking the Turing test.
(Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test)
Curiously none of them have argued the point!
That creates a template where the AI learns how to learn instead of just mimicking what it has seen elsewhere.
Great parents.
I hope they can afford to support this kid for the rest of his life.
My very liberal Jewish friend has a brilliant, handsome son who just graduated with honors from the university. He showed me a sample of AI on a little machine that goes over your eyes. I had a choice of what to watch and chose New Guinea. Fascinating,
When it was over, he asked me how I iiked it.
“Visually spectacular. But I could have done without the global warming conversation.”
Point is, the idiots have infiltrated everything.
My advice to her:
I sent her multiple videos on how to use it as an educator. And how students could use it.
Simple. Relying on Skynet is going to destroy scholarship the same way that relying on spell checkers destroyed the ability of people to spell and proofread .
PARENTS need to wake up.
Just like Xiden.
Hingham is the town next door. It’s very upscale with plenty of Harris/Walz signs. They replaced the BLM signs. I guarantee that if a Hingham resident saw a black person walking around their neighborhood , the police would get a call.
It’s no different than being asked to take a math test for basic PEMDAS questions without a calculator.
You have to demonstrate YOUR ability to write. Having a computer spit out text is not your work.
I use AI every day to query information and to assist with written documents - but nobody is telling me not to and if they ask if I used AI I say, “OF COURSE!”.
Lord help the folks in and around those parents.
Can you imagine the chaos they probably cause?
The parents win.
The school needs to update their assignment policy.
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