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Admissions Essays Written By AI Are Easy To Spot

“Researchers in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science compared 30,000 college application essays written by humans to ones written by eight popular large language models (LLMs), AI models that process and generate text, like ChatGPT. Even when they specified a person’s race, gender and geographic location in the prompt, the models […]

Cornell’s GenAI Committee Report For Pedagogy Is Excellent

“To address the risks of GAI while maximizing its benefit, we propose a flexible framework in which instructors can choose to prohibit, to allow with attribution, or to encourage GAI use. We discuss this framework, taking into consideration academic integrity, accessibility, and privacy concerns; provide examples of how this framework might be broadly relevant to […]

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Peter Nilsson

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