”Everyone is cheating their way through college” with GenAI. Who should bear the costs?
We recorded 8 claims from this post. 3 were checked against evidence. 5 can’t be checked. 3 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (8)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“The curriculum does, obviously need a redesign.”
Our reading: University curricula need to be redesigned because of GenAI.
No horizon
Qualifier: in light of GenAI cheating
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Observation
“The status quo clearly no longer works.”
Our reading: The current university education model no longer works now that GenAI exists.
No horizon
Qualifier: given GenAI
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“We are going to do need a more thorough going redesign than that.”
Our reading: Education will need a redesign more thorough than one-off assignments like having students find hallucinations in LLM-generated papers.
No horizon
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Causal claim
“GenAI has nuked all of this.”
Our reading: GenAI has destroyed term papers' role in giving writing practice, prompting reflection and evaluating students at scale.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: The strongest negative experiment examines take-home examinations rather than term papers.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Forecast
“With enough money you can have TAs and smaller sections of say 20 students each, taught by teaching assistants, but with university budgets being slashed, few universities will have enough money to make that work.”
Our reading: With university budgets being cut, few universities will have enough money to replace term papers with small TA-led sections.
No deadline stated Evidence as of
Limitation: US universities are an interpretive population choice.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Recommendation or value judgment
“You can’t cut funding to universities, signal to kids that using ChatGPT to write the papers is ok, and expect professors to save the day and the educational system without financial support.”
Our reading: One cannot cut university funding, signal to students that using ChatGPT to write their papers is acceptable, and still expect professors to save the day and the educational system without financial support.
No horizon
Scope: funding to universities is cut
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
Causal claim
“The creators and distributors of GenAI, who have brought this huge problem to society?”
Our reading: The creators and distributors of GenAI have brought this huge problem, GenAI undermining college education and evaluation, to society.
No horizon Evidence as of
Limitation: The strongest direct experiment covers five psychology modules at one UK university.
Assessment: Can’t be checkedSaid
Forecast
“The likely outcome here? College students from here on out will get little from their educations, professors will be overwhelmed, unable to adapt to the scale of what would be required to do individualized education with budgets that don’t really support that, and the Sam Altmans of the world will laugh their way to the bank.”
Our reading: The likely outcome is that from here on out college students will get little from their educations, professors will be overwhelmed and unable to adapt to the scale required for individualized education on budgets that don't really support it, and the Sam Altmans of the world will laugh their way to the bank.
No horizon
Qualifier: with budgets that don't really support individualized education
Held from this post (3)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- The two reviews read the claim differently
- The criteria are ambiguous. Our reading, not assessed: Because of GenAI-enabled cheating in college, employers will struggle to find well-educated employees.