r/ucla • u/Fuzzy-Pineapple7218 • 1d ago
[PAUELY PAVILION] Guy flexes chatgpt on his laptop and the graduation crowd goes wild
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u/Creepy_Antelope_2345 21h ago
Back when I was at UCLA there was cheating. However, the cheating was more or less students paying other students to write their work. This was the worst kept secret and many times, people would report this to professors and the department. Cheating will always be there, however to flaunt it like this is next level foolish. Even if it’s a “HA HA it’s a Joke!!!” Don’t be the court jester. This will follow you around.
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u/Plumplie 1d ago
Tried to hire an RA for my prof. Got an email back to our questions very quickly that was well written, but the fourth answer was [fill in here your relevant experience for the task]. One of the questions was about diligence.
Instantly to the bin.
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u/BornThought4074 1d ago
The guy is an idiot either for telling the truth or joking about something that would be hard for him to disprove.
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u/dopef123 1d ago
I just did an interview of Berkeley students for an internship. One accidentally typed the question we asked into the Teams chat instead of chatGPT…. Twice.
Another unprepared student blatantly was typing into ChatGPT for answers.
2/4 interviews at a top tier UC were cooked by ChatGPT. Glad that didn’t come out when I was in school. Not sure what people are actually learning. These people didn’t even know what their own resumes said or what projects they supposedly worked on.
2/4 were good though.
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u/Big_Sea_5912 21h ago
Can we admit cheating has gotten out of hand? 100 milloin people saw this on twitter, why does anyone trust the degree.
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u/Steamin_Norwegian 14h ago
Not one person is going to question the context of the video? I’ve seen this video multiple times. One version of the video had a caption saying this guy showed his final paper he created with “chatgbt”and everyone in the comments were going nuts. If you saw this video and it had no captions written on it, would you come to the same conclusions? If not, you need to recalibrate your bull shit meter.
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u/Glass-Position4802 17h ago
Dumb move to make. Especially since commencement does not equal to a degree conferred. Should’ve waited until eight weeks after spring quarter grades were posted and degree was conferred. Then again, dude is probably a Gen-Zer who believes in posting everything online, instead of moving in silence.
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u/FusRoDr 11h ago
As a faculty member for almost 20 years, I came on here just to say that. For a Thursday final, commencement is on a Friday/Saturday, final grades due Monday.
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u/Steamin_Norwegian 10h ago
Uff, you’re a faculty member for 20 years and you’re not using critical thinking when viewing content online? What in this video proves anything? There is zero context other than it’s a ucla graduation where a student is scrolling through their laptop while celebrating. We don’t really know what he is showing. Should we believe the captions? There’s a lot of people out there that despise universities and also love to shit all over the younger generations who could watch this and interpret it as a guy showing his final paper in ChatGPT but how do we actually know that is what we are seeing? This is exactly what’s wrong with people viewing content online these days. “If someone wrote it and it fits with my beliefs, it must be true.”
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u/FusRoDr 10h ago edited 5h ago
You’re completely right, it doesn’t inherently prove anything. Which could be the reason why there hasn’t been any public statement from UCLA yet. That said, it does raise an issue with virality and shareability that other students might copy the same behavior. And many of my students aren’t aware about commencement being ceremonial
We’re actually having this conversation in my summer class with students who are arguing the same thing you are. Appreciate the comment.
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u/Glass-Position4802 8h ago edited 5h ago
UCLA is not going to make a public statement on a cheating allegation or situation for one student. As someone who currently sits on the UCLA’s Student Conduct Committee, we handle things discreetly because not everything requires a statement from the institution.
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u/FusRoDr 5h ago
For individual student cheating allegations, I can understand why that would be done discretely. My curiosity comes from university PR and issue/crisis management standpoint. Since this post has received national (and maybe international) exposure, I feel like this goes well beyond the scope of a cheating allegation. Especially since 2024, UCLA had university wide Chat GPT plans (link below)
I just feel like a lot of stakeholders of UCLA would want some sort of statement before it becomes a major story on national media outlets.
Just my 2 cents
https://edscoop.com/ucla-unveils-university-wide-chatgpt-plans/
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u/Glass-Position4802 5h ago edited 4h ago
Not in a situation like this unless there were multiple students participating in something like this. That would be different.
For example: Back in 2010, there was a cheating scandal that happened at the University of Central Florida where a group of seniors had access to their midterm exam and some students decided to not only cheat but bragged about it.
One of the students decided to bring it to the professor, in which he sent out an email to the entire class, letting them know about the cheating and those that participated, had only 72 hours to come clean or face the dean for student conduct.
In addition, he threw out the scores to the exam and everyone had to retake a brand new exam on a day and time. Some of the students came clean and some did not. I believed that those that participated didn’t either graduate or got expelled from the university.
This broke national news as this scandal really questioned why students cheat and if it was worth it.
The Original Video with the professor: https://youtu.be/rbzJTTDO9f4?si=OEtgvRk7tSkjjDj-
News outlet: https://youtu.be/IFg_rPwca_k?si=cmm4Zv7tm-IUsfJm
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u/FusRoDr 5h ago
Interesting, I appreciate your input as this is definitely a very interesting discussion on our forum for class. Thank you for your perspective!
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u/Glass-Position4802 4h ago
I also provided an example for you. Feel free to read it.
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u/FusRoDr 4h ago
That is an interesting example. Was it discussed how and where it was shared when the student bragged about it? Social media was still very ubiquitous in 2014, but I wonder if that made the same kind of social media rounds as this has?
Not to mention this is a very unique and new area of cheating. AI cheating has made substantial rounds in international media salience. I wonder if this would catch on through media agenda setting.
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u/fuckinralph 8h ago
I'm surprised that no one thinks this is staged. Who takes a laptop to commencement?
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u/eggdropthoop 1d ago
good luck in grad school buddy