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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Am I wrong in thinking student can still generate an essay and then copy it by hand?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not during class. Most likely a proctored exam. No laptops, no phones, teacher or proctor watching.

[–] Syrc -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

…then why can’t you do that with a school laptop that can’t access the web…?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because laptops cost money lol

[–] Syrc -1 points 2 years ago

And so do colleges. If they don’t want to invest $2000 every 5/6 years for a hundred dumpster windows 95 PCs it shouldn’t be the paying student to suffer.

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 2 years ago

Only if you memorize it. In which case, why not just memorize the test material?

[–] Axxi 4 points 2 years ago

My first thought was exactly this.

[–] drekly -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like effort, I'm making a font out of my handwriting and getting a 3d printer to write it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Obviously that is the next step for the technically inclined, but even the less inclined may be capable of generating them copying to save time and brain effort.