Islamabad, Dec 2: Two years after its launch, ChatGPT’s disruptive impact on education is glaringly obvious. To receive marks, credits, and even degrees, students are increasingly turning to generative AI for assignments and tests. They are turning in chatbot-generated work as their own. A serious worry is confirmed by recent U.K. research: teachers are mainly unable to recognize academic work produced by artificial intelligence.
The value of college degrees and high school diplomas is seriously threatened by the growing usage of AI to finish academic tasks. It also raises grave worries about unqualified people going into vital fields like firefighting, nursing, and engineering, where a lack of real knowledge could have disastrous results.
It’s concerning that some colleges have made matters worse by allowing the use of AI while outlawing the very tools that are meant to identify it, so promoting academic dishonesty. According to a study by Peter Scarfe and associates at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, instructors are worrisomely unable to recognize AI-generated content.
A startling 97% of the simple AI-generated assignments that researchers turned in under fictitious student profiles were missed. The study indicates that this 6% detection rate is probably exaggerated in comparison to actual cheating situations, which is even more concerning.
The report stated the following:
In total, 94% of AI uploads were not recognized, almost making them undetectable. 97% of AI contributions remained undiscovered if we apply a more stringent standard for “detection,” which requires the flag to clearly mention AI.
The challenge of recognizing text produced by artificial intelligence is not new. Last year, a research from the University of South Florida showed that even linguists with training had trouble telling the difference between text produced by AI and that produced by humans.
