Blog Journal 5

     When Designing my website i tried to keep the same kind of theme and tried to keep my website as organized as possible. For example i tried to keep the same color scheme throughout my website. I also tried to format my website in a way that was easy to follow with few images to keep the website easy to read. I also tied to put important information in one place.

        Ways i thought of using qr codes in a classroom would be to use them as a way for students to easily access study materials on their phones. One website i had in mind was quizlet and kahoot, which paired with a qr code would allow students easy on the go access to these resources. For quizlet it would allow me to easily allow students to access study sets. Same with easy accesss to class kahoots we might use when in class.

        Case Study Ai- Writing Detectors  by Irina Raicu

In January 2023, OpenAI released a tool designed to identify AI-written text. Earlier that month, a Princeton student had released his own app aiming to detect text produced by ChatGPT. Both efforts were, at least in part, a response to concerns expressed by many instructors that students were submitting assignments written by AI, claiming to have written them themselves. OpenAI’s announcement included a caveat: 

In our evaluations on a ‘challenge set’ of English texts, our classifier correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text.. as ‘likely AI-written,’ while incorrectly labeling human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time…. We’re making this classifier publicly available to get feedback on whether imperfect tools like this one are useful.

In February, Turnitin announced that it had “developed an AI writing detector that, in its lab, identifies 97 percent of ChatGPT and GPT3 authored writing, with a very low less than 1/100 false positive rate.” The company’s Chief Product Officer noted that it was “essential that [the company’s] detector and any others limit false positives that may impact student engagement or motivation.” In April, Turnitin “made its AI detection feature available to 10,700 secondary and higher educational institutions.” 

In May, Stanford researchers reported that AI-detection tools (seven available on the market by that point) were “especially unreliable when the real author (a human) is not a native English speaker.” The researchers cautioned that their analysis raised “serious questions about the objectivity of AI detectors and… the potential that foreign-born students and workers might be unfairly accused of or, worse, penalized for cheating.” In July, an article titled “Tools to Detect AI-Generated Content Just Don’t Work” reported on an academic study that reviewed 14 AI-detection tools by then available for use. The researchers, who built on previously published papers, wrote that the tools (which included Turnitin’s) were “neither accurate nor reliable (all scored below 80 percent of accuracy and only 5 over 70 percent… ) In general, they have been found to diagnose human-written documents as AI-generated (false positives) and often diagnose AI-generated texts as human-written (false negatives).”

Also in July, OpenAI updated its blog post to announce that its tool was “no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy.” 

Some students have spoken publicly about being wrongly flagged for plagiarism by some of these assessment tools. Turnitin’s AI-detection feature remains available. The company notes on its website that its “model may not always be accurate (it may misidentify both human and AI-generated text) so it should not be used as the sole basis for adverse actions against a student.” 

How i would address the case would be to still use websites such as Turnitin to crack down on students using generative Ai, but i would also try and cross reference and double check before accusing a student of cheating. I believe this to ethically correct because it still allows to teachers with some accuracy to crack down on plagiarism with the use of Generative Ai. Having teachers and professors double check by doing their own checking manually it aims to help crack down on false accusations. Thats why i believe this would be the best course of action ethically in this case.