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“If you don’t like writing, avoid it. With the latest AI technology, you’ll never get caught taking over your homework.”
Recently, social media such as TikTok and YouTube have been flooded with videos that offer irresistible temptations to students. With the development of AI technology, the introduction of AI detection software is increasing in educational fields from kindergartens to universities, but new apps that cleverly bypass them are on the rise, making the education world nervous.
The New York Times (NYT) reported on the 18th (local time) that simple copy and paste plagiarism in the past has now evolved into a complex technological avoidance using AI.
Representative avoidance tools that are currently being widely promoted through social media include “Humanizer,” which rewrites the robot-like and formalized context of AI-generated text like a natural human’s tone, and “Auto-Tiper,” which allows text to be slowly entered into the document while the user is away, as if a person is typing himself.
In particular, auto-tyers are designed to make typos, erase them, and correct them so that teachers can completely deceive when inspecting the document’s writing records.
The edutech industry and startups are taking a dual attitude in the name of relieving students of academic stress. Some companies sell AI detection tools to schools and at the same time provide apps that students can rewrite AI’s writings without being caught by them in a subscription type of $10 to $20 per month.
Jenny Maxwell, director of education at Superhuman, the maker of the famous spelling checker Grammar, pointed out that the endless competition between detection and avoidance is a bigger cat’s battle to catch bigger mice.
GPT Zero, an AI detector, also caused controversy in the process of targeting both educators and students. A marketer promoted an app on TikTok by posing as a fake graduate student assistant, which not only detects AI but also generates a perfect thesis for quotes in seconds.
With millions of followers, TikTok influencers magically pack these tools. A tech influencer with 6.5 million followers proudly shows how to use a specific app to make an essay written by ChatGPT look like a human being.
Apps have also emerged that show students automatically completing essays while they rest while eating sandwiches or intensively promote the function of writing science experiment reports instead. In the wake of the controversy, some companies have taken belated steps, such as terminating contracts with the advertising agency or deleting apps.
The biggest problem is educational side effects. Several studies have shown that students who rely heavily on AI are experiencing cognitive offloading phenomena in which they fail to learn new skills or their existing thinking skills degenerate.
George Cusak, director of the AI Academic Initiative at Carlton University, strongly criticized, “Edutech apps claim to be helpers, but they actually replace everything for students.”
But an unconditional ban is also not the answer. Harvard University student and influencer Jenny Ng said AI use has already become commonplace, but there is definitely student shame in abusing it.
In response, Harvard’s faculty is adopting a method of replacing final exams with oral or traditional paper-written tests. Education experts warn that completely banning technology itself could be an educational dereliction of duty, as AI utilization will become essential in future workplaces.
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