As signs of group cheating using artificial intelligence (AI) have emerged one after another at major universities in Seoul and schools are moving to craft countermeasures, voices of backlash from students against Korea University have surfaced. Some students publicly criticized the school, saying, "The university and professors refuse to acknowledge their failure to manage the situation and are shifting all the blame onto students."
According to the university community on the 26th, a wall poster titled "Exposing the total incompetence of the faculty at the prestigious private institute's Institute for Aging Society Studies" was recently posted at Korea University. A person surnamed Kim, who identified as a class of '19 in the Department of Computer Science at Korea University, wrote in the poster, "I wrote (the poster) to criticize the school for, without any reflection on its poor management, forcing students to accept the complete invalidation of the midterm exam and an unrealistic standard of a plagiarism rate under 5% for assignments," and argued, "The school and faculty show no reflection or sense of responsibility for their dereliction of duty and management failure."
This was a response to a notice by faculty running a non-face-to-face online lecture at Korea University, where group cheating signs were detected, instructing students, as a follow-up measure, to submit assignments that meet the criterion of "under 5% on GPT Killer (an AI-based plagiarism detection tool)." The point is that even if students do not use AI tools such as ChatGPT, the "under 5%" criterion is, in reality, a plagiarism rate that is very hard to achieve.
The person surnamed Kim noted, "This is a coercive measure that treats the well-intentioned majority of students as potential criminals," adding, "Among the causes of (the cheating) is the faculty's negligent management, which responded complacently even though they could fully anticipate the possibility of cheating in a non-face-to-face environment."
Kim added that even the faculty's announcement demanding a plagiarism rate under 5% for students showed a 6% plagiarism rate when checked by Copy Killer and GPT Killer. A post photographing the poster that was uploaded to the Korea University Seoul campus board on the student online community "Everytime" has received more than 300 upvotes.
Earlier at Korea University, signs of cheating by some students were revealed in last month's online exam for a non-face-to-face general education course and in an online quiz for an engineering college major class, leading the school to invalidate the test results. In response, the school set in principle the administration of in-person exams for the final exam on the previous day.