| ▲ | miltonlost 6 hours ago |
| Ok, but did AI and LLMs make the cheating easier, faster, harder to detect? Whatabout the past doesn't change the problems now. "My leg already had a cut on it. No need to worry about the new stab wound in my chest!" |
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| ▲ | us-merul 6 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Absolutely; it's a real problem. But institutions like MIT have also been participating in, and benefiting from, this transactional relationship from their side in offering degrees that they know carry so much value. |
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| ▲ | bloppe 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | MIT makes all its money from research (and investing its endowment more successfully than most schools), not tuition, and the success in research comes from having such a high-achieving community of faculty and graduate students. They're pretty incentivized to keep the bar for academic achievement genuinely high. | | |
| ▲ | us-merul 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | To clarify, I am pro-university. I'm just saying that institutions do not always behave in ways that are purely for educational benefit, such as with legacy admissions or grade inflation. I don't think the blame falls solely on students for viewing university degrees as a necessary step for something else. I would sure bet admissions committees will use AI to screen applicants, if they aren't doing so already. |
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