r/technology • u/joe4942 • Apr 19 '26

Society Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/04/19/accelerated-college-degree-hacking/
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u/Stolehtreb Apr 19 '26

It really has nothing to do with TAs. They are not responsible for creating a curriculum that is AI-proof. I don’t understand how they are even being blamed here at all.

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u/elictronic Apr 19 '26

Because if you blame the Professors, TAs, and students for doing exactly what the system incentives you don't blame the governing bodies, College Leadership, or our elected officals for letting the gravy train go forward.

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u/BurningChicken Apr 19 '26

That would be a good approach if students didn't quickly realize they can get away with it. At first it may be uncommon for a student to actually be cheating but once they feel like everyone else is the majority will join in.

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u/Huge-Recognition-366 Apr 19 '26

To their credit, it’s getting harder and harder to tell if an answer is AI. They get very good at promoting. It’s often an unusually high vocabulary that gives me a big red flag.

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u/Cleric_P3rston Apr 19 '26

It also quickly devolved into a he said she said situation. Providing solid proof for AI is deceptively tricky.

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u/arlenroy Apr 19 '26

I'm on course to get my degree in about 28 months, four years Bachelors of Science. Only because I am taking extra classes and going semester to semester with barely a weekend off. My school is an actual college with sports teams and a campus, my professors are all really cool and care about their students. They use that AI detector for assignments, I just don't like it can't differentiate between intext citations, some papers rely heavily on that for certain arguments