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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There are certainly people with that name.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

...whose published work on the essay's subject you can cite?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think of AI regurgitating content from the Facebook page of a normie - like it was an essay.

Evaluation of Weekend Minecraft-Driven Beer Eating and Hamburgher Drinking under the Limitations of Simpsology - Pages 3.1416 to 999011010

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you mean that you think a student not using an AI might do that by accident? Otherwise I'm not sure how it's relevant that there might be a real person with that name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

No, of course not. I was talking about a student using an AI that fails at realizing there's nothing academically relevant that relates to his name, so instead of acknowledging the failure or omitting such detail in its answer, it stubbornly uses whichever relates to that name even if out-of-context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd presume the professor would do a quick sanity search to see if by coincidence relevant works by such an author would exist before setting that trap. Upon searching I can find no such author of any sort of publication.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

All people replying that there's no problem because such author does not exist seem to have an strange idea that students don't get nervous and that it's perfectly ok to send them on wild-goose chases because they'll discover the instruction was false.

I sure hope you are not professors. In fact, I do hope you do not hold any kind of power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Strangely enough I recall various little mistakes in assignments or handing in assignments, and I lived.

Maybe this would be an undue stress/wild goose chase in the days where you'd be going to a library and hitting up a card catalog and doing all sorts of work. But now it's "plug name into google, no results, time to email the teaching staff about the oddity, move on with my day and await an answer to this weird thing that is like a normal weird thing that happens all the time with assignments".

On the scale of "assisstive technology users get the short end of the stick", this is pretty low, well behind the state of, for example, typically poor closed captioning.