Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams
Students in Colombia are having their education interfered with due to the availability of AI chatbots on platforms such as WhatsApp, teachers say, as resisting the temptation to copy and paste answers from AI is too difficult for pupils.
Colombia was already facing issues; just over half of students complete high school, according to the Educational Realities Observatory at Icesi University.
Teachers have to spend more time monitoring for AI-generated work via plagiarism detectors, while others have implemented oral or handwritten exams.
Others have chosen to abolish homework entirely, to ensure they can oversee their students doing the work themselves.
Publication: Rest of World
Writer: Laura Rodríguez Salamanca
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