Marginalium

A note in the margins

December 27, 2024

Marginalium

My commentary on something from elsewhere on the web.

Teachers apparently unable to catch AI papers. Paper is here. This is both surprising and unsurprising. After a year of marking, I’d pick up about 10-15% of papers for AI-sounding writing. I assume more was written, but with more sophisticated prompting and editing, but this paper doesn’t do either of those things and ends up flagging only 6%. Doesn’t seem right. But equally, all the AI related retractions from journals indicate this might be an outlier. I wonder if it’s a function of the quantity of essays you mark at collegiate institutions?


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