Tag: turnitin
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Condemning AI in education while requiring 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?
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Stop using AI detection services because they don’t work
The researchers conclude that the available detection tools are neither accurate nor reliable and have a main bias towards classifying the output as human-written rather than detecting AI-generated text. Furthermore, content obfuscation techniques significantly worsen the performance of tools. Weber-Wulff, et al. (2023). Testing of detection tools for AI-generated text. International Journal for Educational Integrity,…
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Link: What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?
https://markcarrigan.net/2024/02/07/what-if-turnitin-had-pivoted-towards-ai-assessment-rather-than-ai-detection/ “What AI product did TII try and build? A detector. What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection? Or AI analytics? Imagine what else could have possibly be done with the data they have in their systems?“ Interesting question to consider.
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Comment: OpenAI discontinues its AI text detector…
Bastian, M. (2023, July 25). OpenAI discontinues its AI text detector due to lack of accuracy. THE DECODER. https://the-decoder.com/openai-discontinues-ai-text-detector-due-to-lack-of-accuracy/ “OpenAI was aware that the system had a low reliable detection rate and that it misidentified human text as AI text nine percent of the time in tests. The company was open about these weaknesses and explicitly…
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Another Terrible Idea from Turnitin | Just Visiting
Allowing the proliferation of algorithmic surveillance as a substitution for human engagement and judgment helps pave the road to an ugly future where students spend more time interacting algorithms than instructors or each other. This is not a sound way to help writers develop robust and flexible writing practices. Source: Another Terrible Idea from Turnitin…