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New ways to auto-generate texts make it easier for students who want to try to cheat and set new demands on the country’s colleges and universities.
The new AI programs can credibly write shorter academic texts, something that can help the country’s universities and colleges, Vetenskapsradion reports.
– Let’s say you have a task to summarize some type of text. You can even ask this AI to problematize and it will generate this. We have a problem there, says Fredrik Ahlgren, lecturer in computer science at Linnaeus University, to the radio.
– For quite some time, universities have had anti-plagiarism systems where you compare texts against other texts on the internet to see that you are not copying. these are completely out of order now, he continues.
According to Pontus Kyrk, a lawyer at the University Chancellor’s Office (UKÄ), the state supervisory authority for colleges and universities, no plan has been drawn up to deal with possible AI cheating.
– It is something that we have to take with us and think about whether it becomes a bigger problem. Now it is in its infancy a bit. The universities are responsible for curbing and countering this type of cheating, says Kyrk to the radio.