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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)
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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why even take the class?

To have a piece of paper to get a job.

For CS this is nothing new we have been dealing with graduates who can't program, and self-taught geniuses, since before the AI boom so paper credentials just aren't as important.

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

You don't need a piece of paper to get a decent job. People go to college to get into fields they personally care about. If all you care about is money, go work sales.

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

Companies love paper certificates because that means they can outsource judging applicant qualifications. How bad that is differs from company to company and field to field.

I mean if you're a small non-IT company, say a machine shop, and you're looking for a devops and you have no IT department and noone understands anything about what that person is going to do but "is going to run our website and sales platform"... what else are you going to rely on but paper certificates? Hire a consultancy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Most companies don't actually require degrees to get decent paying work. Even s lot of IT work is hired more by documented experience than having a degree. Having a degree alone simply doesn't cut it in that field; you have to actually prove you can do actual things which a degree can't really do anymore. Degrees are for academic fields.

Source: Went to college, then switched to sales which required no outside education, learned and earned a lot more.