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> Such as? We need an answer now because students are being assessed now. Return to the old "viva voce" exam? Still used for PhDs. But that doesn't scale at all.

For a solution "now" to the cheating problem, regular exam conditions (on-site or remote proctoring) should still work more or less the same as they always have. I'd claim that the methods affected by LLMs are those that could already be circumvented by those with money or a smart relative to do the work for them.

Longer-term, I think higher-level courses/exams may benefit from focusing on what humans can do when permitted to use AI tools.



Yeah, LLM is kind of just making expensive cheats cheaper. You can do it without LLM, and indeed students did similar things prior to the release of ChatGPT, just less common.




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