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I thought that they were trying to get at the hypocrisy of using ai tools to detect ai writing, which has a dismal success rate and ends up with a crazy amount of false positives.

I see that the growth of computer/digital testing directly led to student abuse of ai. Once students were no longer called on to write a blue book or even just generate responses to short answer questions, we failed our students. I understand that term papers and larger writing assignments have their place, but there really is nothing like being able to sit down and show your knowledge in an on the spot essay (at least for a lot of humanities courses where I see ai being abused).

A systemic issue in this space comes from universities and licensing entities giving testing companies carte blanche to race to the bottom in terms of effective testing tools. For licensing, apprenticeship/mentorship and observation are always better indicators of on the job performance, but that doesn’t have the ease and profit margins of big bullshit testing, so companies would never go for it unless states mandated such pathways. With regard to a lot of current digital university testing, a lot of that was Frankensteined from existing licensing exam tools/strategies and similarly does not effectively assess student/candidate aptitude.

Even if this was not the intent of the commentor, my argument is that carelessness and disingenuous/gatekeeping testing practices from universities and licensing institutions certainly bred a significant level of disengagement in students which leads to them phoning it in with ai slop. If we wanted rigorous work from our students, we should have kept the same standards for ourselves, collectively.

I used proton vpn on Debian for a while just fine. Not exactly the same, but you can still set up the GUI app.

Edit: Don’t mind me lol I remember having issues with testing. Just read/processed everything.

It’s getting to the point where I literally cannot afford to laugh, though.

I absolutely understand lol that is next level!

It would have to cost more per shot to break even, but I’d be down for either.

I invested in a set of hex keys about five years ago and I have never been more smug than when I get to pop those bad boys out. Even brought a set to work…

Absolutely. And in the meantime, I still need bad things to happen to terrible people lol

Wishing the best for any cancerous/precancerous cells in Brendan Carr’s colon.

Man, I’m just trying to see what’s up?

The main revolution I want to see is the rejection of ideas/cultures that isolate and divide us. I think if people are able to push past apathy and fear, we can make our communities and lives a lot more caring and growthful.

Lots of other things need to change, but personal responsibility and stewardship of your own community can produce tangible results, show others that we don’t have to live in constant fear and anger, and eventually lead to more positive change.

The best way to celebrate is to work toward a better revolution. Hopefully, some of these people are starting to realize that.

We can only hope this helps kill the fad. I know companies won’t be taking any realistic lesson from this, but at least this can force them to abandon a lot of this crap.

We need the gayest of crimes to make a comeback. Stonewall style.

I agree with you and the other commentor here, just want to add that a lot of reporting stays away from hard numbers because it’s hard for both the reporter and most readers to grasp.

Our critical thinking and mathematical issues in education definitely go back beyond the lead paint days, and a lot of journalists will try to smooth out the numbers.

As you say, it’s also sometimes done for sensationalism, but this one reads more like the journalist either never got the hard numbers or didn’t think the audience would follow along with them.

They will never see prison or justice until the common people take back the power to put them there. This is their plan. Same shit, different venue. Financial, wage, privacy, surveillance, due process, and enforcement violations/transgressions/iniquities, all, point in the same direction.

Basically, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” Can only change through direct and persistent opposition and action against bad faith actors.

We’re past the point of redistribution. We need to take it out of their hides as well.

Lol teachers definitely don’t get color printing. And students don’t have access to printers at school, thankfully. My money is on a kid spending money for a prank lol

If I were practicing, I would be suuuuper hesitant to do that in any half reasonable jurisdiction. Bar associations (and judges) take client fees pretty seriously and attorneys are already obligated to review everything (even if it’s a fiction we all turn a blind eye to).

I feel it. To be entirely honest, it was already probably sent by an underpaid secretary or paralegal. Now it’s just more apparent that they have too large a caseload.

If it impacts the case, you can see about having them hand it off to another lawyer, but that is definitely something to be strategic about (especially depending on the nature of the work).

Most attorneys are willing to pick up a case or contract work with a sort of finders fee to the first attorney that depends on how much work was done before the handoff.

Not sure if it’ll work for you, but I’d try an honest conversation as a lot of the times, attorneys are aware that certain cases/clients aren’t the right fit or they may be unable to handle the caseload.

Drop him.