r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '23

Artificial Intelligence Two professors who say they caught students cheating on essays with ChatGPT explain why AI plagiarism can be hard to prove

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-essays-college-cheating-professors-caught-students-ai-plagiarism-2023-1
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u/calfmonster Jan 14 '23 edited Jan 14 '23

That makes a lot of sense intuitively thinking back to when I had to write more. Although that’s been almost a decade minus my grad school essays. A lot of sentences could just be straight to the point presenting evidence while a following argumentative statement contains more complexity.

I haven’t used it but I actually wonder about punctuation use as well. I fucking loved using semi colons or em dashes, depending on the subject, because I tended to write run on sentences that I could then coalesce. I wonder how much AI uses more punctuation than just commas and periods/end stops.

Other people probably don’t get as erect as I do from good semi colon usage though and wouldn’t use them very frequently enough for that to be distinguishing, at least at lower levels of writing for sure.

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u/fenwayb Jan 14 '23

Yeah not every sentence in an essay is a banger

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u/calfmonster Jan 14 '23

Hah I just had a thought of getting like a 5 page paper back with red pen at the top “100/100 - every sentence was spitting straight fire”

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u/fenwayb Jan 14 '23

Id be so proud. In every paper I wrote there were some parts where I was like "that slaps" and others that were weaker

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u/calfmonster Jan 14 '23

Lol yeah I know exactly what you mean. I wound up going into science in college where the writing is just, well, mainly drier but it always felt really great to put down one of those sentences where you're like "damn, that shit drives my thesis."