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And every professor just groaned at the thought of having to read yet another AI-generated term paper.

Take-home assignments are basically obsolete. Students who want to cheat, can do so easily. Of course, in the end, they cheat themselves, but that's not the point.

They should just get AI to mark them. I genuinely think this is one thing AI would do better than humans.

Grading papers definitely requires intelligence.

My partner marked a PHD thesis yesterday and there was a spelling mistake in the title.

There is some level of analysis and feedback than an LLM could provide before a human reviews it. Even if it's just a fancy spelling checker.

I'd like to burst into a post a number of the unbelievable akin mishandlings of academic tasks I was reported, but. I do have a number of prize-worthy anecdotes that compete with yours. Nonetheless. Let us fight farce with rigour.

Even when the tasks are not in-depth, but easier to assess, you still require a /reliable evaluator/. LLMs are not. Could they be at least employed as a virtual assistant, "parse and suggest, then I'll check"? If so, not randomly ("pick a bot"), but in full awareness of the specific instrument. That stage is not here.

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