Pen & Paper Are Back In USA Schools As AI Cheating Goes Out Of Hand

[RAMROD 117,058]

It’s no secret that AI is wrecking America’s educational system. With easy access to apps like ChatGPT—which can answer any question and also write full-fledged essays for you—high school and college students have begun to cheat their way through life, content to let an algorithm do the thinking, and the test-taking, for them. It’s no surprise, then, that some educators have gone analog, in an effort to stem the tide of anti-intellectualism sweeping the nation.

The Wall Street Journal recently did some diggingand has discovered that sales of blue books have been climbing over the past year. Citing data from a number of large public universities, the newspaper notes that bulk purchases of the booklets have grown by leaps and bounds since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022:

Sales of blue books this school year were up more than 30% at Texas A&M University and nearly 50% at the University of Florida. The improbable growth was even more impressive at the University of California, Berkeley. Over the past two academic years, blue-book sales at the Cal Student Store were up 80%. Demand for blue books is suddenly booming again because they help solve a problem that didn’t exist on campuses until now.

Now, however, as AI tears through America’s elite educational system, lobotomizing tomorrow’s young leaders as it goes, could it be that blue books have been refashioned from a villain of the pre-AI age to a hero for our algorithmically-poisoned times? More and more, it seems like they’re the dark knight that America’s illiterate masses needs.

Yet while the return of blue books may be a step in the right direction, they surely aren’t a fix-all for the broad variety of ills caused by students’ AI-use. Philip D. Bunn, an assistant professor at the Covenant College in Georgia, recently wrote on his blog that the traditional essay (which, until ChatGPT came along, was a great indicator of a student’s intellectual capacity and was very difficult to fake unless you went to the trouble of hiring a ghostwriter) cannot be replaced by the in-class essay. Bunn writes that “the process of writing a paper outside of class cannot simply be replicated in a blue book exam, and something serious is lost if we give up entirely on the traditional essay, whether those essays are more analytic, argumentative, or research-based.”

Indeed, if the return of pen and paper is a promising sign, America’s educators aren’t out of the woods yet—not even close. A recent survey found that 89% of college students had admitted to using ChatGPT to complete a homework assignment. AI-detection tools designed to spot cheating also routinely fail. Increasingly, America’s youth seem to view their educations as a high-stakes video game to be algorithmically juked. In short, more drastic measures (like the formulation of new laws and regulations around AI use) may need to be taken if the onset of America’s aggressive stupidification is to be halted.

https://gizmodo.com/ai-cheating-is-so-out-of-hand-in-americas-schools-that-the-blue-books-are-coming-back-2000607771

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8 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

A recent survey found that 89% of college students had admitted to using ChatGPT to complete a homework assignment.

That is disturbing

[Lord Mayhem 3,428]

Honestly...AI has just made humans way more dumb instead of people, especially children, using their brains to problem solve

You tell a kid these days to multiply 9 x 12 and they have a seizure...

[27monster27 15,864]

2 minutes ago, Lord Mayhem said:

Honestly...AI has just made humans way more dumb instead of people, especially children, using their brains to problem solve

You tell a kid these days to multiply 9 x 12 and they have a seizure...

Honestly, I personally think that the technological singularity (the point where technology becomes self aware) will be more like Wall-E than terminator. People will become lazy and unaware.

[Ilia Malinin 2,879]

spotify podcast ads were like, really insistent on telling uni students to use chatgpt on their finals.  i was frankly disgusted to get that ad multiple times while just trying to listen to my horror stories podcast. 

[Lord Mayhem 3,428]

1 hour ago, 27monster27 said:

Honestly, I personally think that the technological singularity (the point where technology becomes self aware) will be more like Wall-E than terminator. People will become lazy and unaware.

As we've learned with our own species...greater intelligence doesn't guarantee more peaceful or considerate 

Especially being HUMANS are designing these AI algorithms...the potential for AGI to exceed human capabilities when it comes to processing information and solving complex problems is exponential. 

That being said...we have no idea if AI will constitute humans as a necessary part of society if we continue to recklessly use our natural resources, pollute the environment, and threaten nuclear war on each other. 

[Pigatha 1,336]

My cousin is 14 and is completely clueless on history and every other subject and uses chat gpt for everything. Like kids are so much dumber now.

I'm 24 so we didn't have AI or use computers nearly as much as kids do now, when we did use them it was for computer class or free time, I played gaga music videos on repeat from vevo.com because youtube was blocked lol. 

[Meruk Holland 2,358]

Honestly, I don't think AI is the problem here, I think it just highlights how flawed our education system is to begin with. To me, that'd be like blaming calculators for making kids get lazy with math. Or the internet making libraries obsolete (they don't). I think AI is a tool that will have it's uses and will have the potential to make certain aspects of life easier. Tools can be misused, but that doesn't make it inherently bad. 

I think the rise in AI usage for homework and essays just shows that such methods of teaching are outdated and ineffective. We need to encourage in-person, hands-on, personalized teaching methods. But that require having enough teachers to provide that type of learning, which in turn requires paying them. As well as actually staying up to date with the trends of technology and culture. God knows we aren't going to do that.

[Morphine Prince 109,667]

AI should be used to help us finish tasks, not hinder our education.

AI needs to be completely banned from all education institutions.

It’s frightening it’s being embraced in some places. 

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i mean, i can totally see a young me using AI to make my life easier, it's the reality and y'all would do the same.

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even ourselfs, we had google growing up (at least most of us), our parents didn't had the help of google and wikipedia.

This is the same thing essentially, technology evolving.

i still remember my math teacher saying "you'll never have a calculator on your pocket", bitch, i have the world on my pocket now.

[Werewoof 2,488]

2 hours ago, Meruk Holland said:

Honestly, I don't think AI is the problem here, I think it just highlights how flawed our education system is to begin with. To me, that'd be like blaming calculators for making kids get lazy with math. Or the internet making libraries obsolete (they don't). I think AI is a tool that will have it's uses and will have the potential to make certain aspects of life easier. Tools can be misused, but that doesn't make it inherently bad. 

I think the rise in AI usage for homework and essays just shows that such methods of teaching are outdated and ineffective. We need to encourage in-person, hands-on, personalized teaching methods. But that require having enough teachers to provide that type of learning, which in turn requires paying them. As well as actually staying up to date with the trends of technology and culture. God knows we aren't going to do that.

This is so fantastically written. Thank you for your input 

[vmpiregrn 1,233]

Met a friend-of-a-friend’s boyfriend the other day who is still in college. He was panicking because he was a mere couple of credits away from graduating and his university just caught wind that basically *everything* he’d ever submitted was written with Chat GPT. Everything. Kid comes from a wealthy, good family that is putting him through a really good school. Ridiculous. I already didn’t like this friend-of-a-friend and somehow finding out his boyfriend was doing **** like that made me think less of him lol

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3 hours ago, Lord Mayhem said:

As we've learned with our own species...greater intelligence doesn't guarantee more peaceful or considerate 

Especially being HUMANS are designing these AI algorithms...the potential for AGI to exceed human capabilities when it comes to processing information and solving complex problems is exponential. 

That being said...we have no idea if AI will constitute humans as a necessary part of society if we continue to recklessly use our natural resources, pollute the environment, and threaten nuclear war on each other. 

Thats what happened with Vicky. Her logic was undeniable

 

 

[Lord Mayhem 3,428]

14 hours ago, Economy said:

Thats what happened with Vicky. Her logic was undeniable

 

 

That's what Trump says everyday 

Guess that means he needs to be...