r/byuidaho • u/P15T0L_WH1PP3D • 15d ago
STOP CHEATING!
I am attending online through the Pathway predictable, and it is truly disheartening to see such rampant cheating with the use of AI. The discussion board for my class as of this writing is, other than my post, 100% AI generated. That includes replies. And it's awful because these people don't know how obvious it is, how to make it less obvious, or at the very least how to make their posts different from the other posts already on the board.
Is embarrassing to be associated with this school and for that matter, the church, when so many are sitting here scamming their way to a degree that others have to actually work for. That we are connected to a religious institution should be a point of pride, or at the very least a neutral point. She bringing shame to it. My degree feels cheapened. It's disgusting.
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u/SpaciallyCompromised 13d ago
Something you’re not taking into account is that during Covid when everything went online scores and grades dropped by over 20% nationwide. Cheating became a massive problem while I was at BYU when they put courses, that never should have been, online. I wasn’t surprised, everyone freaked out when their scores started dropping and they couldn’t figure out why, so they cheated. Not just your loser holding on with a C under water basket weaving majors; also your biochem majors, Pre med students, pre law students, all of them were cheating.
Personally I didn’t blame anyone during that time period because they were dealt a crap hand and were trying to figure out what do. Especially for anyone in the sciences who needed to keep their GPAs in the 3.7+ range, they got royally boned.
I’m ADD, I don’t use it as a crutch, instead I formed my class and study schedules around not letting myself get distracted, 15 credit semesters, starting from 6am and out at 6pm, study time in between classes, tutoring and study group after for all of my bio, chem and anatomy classes. Covid absolutely destroyed this. I refused to cheat so instead I pulled out of school when my GPA went from a 4.0 to a 3.75. I waited until classes went back on campus, when I realized professors decided to continue their online shenanigans, I transferred to UvU.
There have always been things like cliff notes and quizlet, AI was a natural evolution of those things. AI got me through my online courses. Your undergrad is already mostly fluff and bs anyway, everything you learned will have nothing to do with your career and anything that does will be a drop in the lake of things you’ll have to learn.
For the most part college is a waist of time that 80% of people shouldn’t be required to do anyway. Unless you want be a Lawyer or a Doctor/PhD and even then you should really be skipping straight to those schools. Under grad universities are just socially accepted money laundering facilities where we’ve told everyone they need a piece of paper to prove they’re capable of learning, or BYUIs case incapable of learning, then strap those kids with crippling debt they’ll be paying off the rest of their lives (yes I know BYUI is cheap). Ever wonder why you have 101 classes? Because employers complained students graduating from BYUI were incapable or slower than average at figuring out issues and thinking outside the box. Hmm 🤔
This is the world we live in, AI isn’t going anywhere. The fact AI isn’t being taught in grade schools and college is criminal, it’d be like not teaching kids how to use computer in the early 2000s. I don’t care what anyone’s political proclivities are on the matter, the reality of the situations doest care either. Schools need to adapt or they’re going to become obsolete. AI is the future. BYU/I needs to adapt. Get rid of 90% of online classes. When I went through pathway after my mission is was all in person. There are easy AI detection softwares. Think outside the box.
Adapt or die.