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the kids are constantly having to sign forms promising they haven't used chat gpt for their homework, but I don't think they need to worry about it going undetected quite yet
@airspeedswift Sadly, this is exactly the sort of thing that can completely destroy a poor kid's confidence in their math understanding. There is someone out there right now thinking that they are bad at math because they've been previously been beaten down and so lack the self-confidence to conclude that the question is wrong, and think it must be something they're not getting.
@gregtitus I feel like the schools are taking the wrong approach with the "academic integrity" pledges that imply LLMs are some genius way to cheat they're not allowed to touch.
What they need to do is show students how wrong the LLMs can be, and make it clear they are smarter than this supposed miracle tech.
(of course, I would also couple this with not banning calculators that can do fractions because we have had that particular tech since the 80s and it actually works and is good)
@airspeedswift I absolutely agree with you that those sorts of pledges sound very counter-productive, and your suggested alternative would be a good one.
Sorry for taking the math example in a different direction - it wasn't disagreement, just frustration at how easily this sort of carelessness (or lack of understanding on the teacher's part) can have all-out-of-proportion effects.