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Condemning AI in education while requiring Turnitin

Apr 9, 2025

in AI, Education, Technology

assessment, data, hypocrisy, privacy, turnitin

This post briefly explores the contradiction in higher education’s approach to student data: condemning AI companies as “predatory” while mandating student submission to Turnitin’s commercial database. Unlike AI services offering opt-out options, plagiarism detection systems provide no choice. Are we applying consistent principles to educational technology, or simply protecting the status quo?
Weekly digest (05-11 Jun 2023)

Jun 11, 2023

in AI, Digest, Education, Research, Technology

algorithms, Allen Institute, bias, black box algorithms, collaborative writing, conversational framework, diana laurillard, Espanso, etherpad, Google Docs, hypocrisy, learning design, machine learning, semantic learning, stochastic parrot, text expander, trust

AI bias and block boxes I’m getting tired of reading about bias and the black box nature of AI (even though I’ve been guilty of this myself). Human brains are biased. Human brains are block boxes. We still trust the outputs of human brains. I’m not suggesting that we just start trusting algorithms. But I…