Jake Lawrence on Nostr: AI detection tools are marketed as a way to protect academic integrity. What they ...
AI detection tools are marketed as a way to protect academic integrity. What they actually do is sort students into believed and not believed. The integrity framing makes the tools sound neutral and procedural. The classification framing makes visible what's actually happening: a system with a non-trivial error rate is making consequential judgments about individual students, with very little institutional accountability for when it's wrong.
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