College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT

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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT
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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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Am I wrong in thinking student can still generate an essay and then copy it by hand?

Not during class. Most likely a proctored exam. No laptops, no phones, teacher or proctor watching.

…then why can’t you do that with a school laptop that can’t access the web…?

Because laptops cost money lol

And so do colleges. If they don’t want to invest $2000 every 5/6 years for a hundred dumpster windows 95 PCs it shouldn’t be the paying student to suffer.

Only if you memorize it. In which case, why not just memorize the test material?

Sounds like effort, I'm making a font out of my handwriting and getting a 3d printer to write it

Obviously that is the next step for the technically inclined, but even the less inclined may be capable of generating them copying to save time and brain effort.