u/mossymeridian

Just got an email from my uni. Did anyone else get it?

I think it would be cool to make a motif or theme generator. You could put in two or three words, like gardening, dream, and ghost and it would come up with some petty little carnival fortune-teller link between the two or three. Maybe you could even select the genre of theme. Does that already exist?

Things were so much more charming before AI. I could do generators for hours. It felt more random but you could also see the human touches. 

Also if you can give me a link between gardening, dreams and ghosts I’d really appreciate it 😂

Wow! 600 characters is actually a lot and more than I have to say on this topic! 

My main problem is I am pursuing a number of distinctions and achievements that are limited to a small number of people, sometimes fewer than 20 people at my university. I’m worried my ability to achieve these things will be hindered by the high marks many people will be receiving on generated work, while my genuine work (which is imperfect, because I’m learning something new) will suddenly fall below the line of receiving distinctions. To be fair, I currently have a 4.0 and there’s no indication that will drop.

For context: I am an adult returning to university after a decade in the nonprofit sector. A direct family member living in my household works in dev for one of the Big Bad AI companies. I have had a decade of paid and published writing experience before returning to university for an additional degree, and I have exceptional proximity to the beating heart of the creation of AI. So I’m very sure, to a near 100% certainty, that I can detect AI generated work. I’m also not going to pretend like it’s not completely apparent the instant you read it.

In my class we were assigned a group project. The other student on my team obviously used my notes as a prompt to create a slideshow for our project. It was obviously AI. They didn’t even change a single word or punctuation mark on it. It truly could not have been more apparent. There was a 34 minute window between when I sent them my notes and when they sent me the deck and there was NO way they were able to be instantly responsive in our ongoing text conversation and create a 12 slide deck (for a 10 minute presentation btw) with brand new citations and complex formatting in that amount of time. I don’t even have a problem that they used my notes in a prompt (you should probably consider anything you upload to any device as in the wind, regardless of where you uploaded it to), but I have a problem with cheating and taking me along for the ride.

I was nervous but I decided not to say anything in the moment, mainly because there was no paper trail to indicate I was consenting to having my notes be used in a prompt, and I’m nervous my own proximity to AI will be discovered and used to cast extra suspicion on me. If I offered the suggestion that their work was AI, how could I say “I know it’s AI because I know AI” without proving how I know AI, and then get a bad reputation in the department… Thankfully they forgot their converter and weren’t able to present it, only read off it, however they did not understand the subject matter at all and actually began arguing against our side momentarily.

Regardless, this did not affect my grade so I didn’t say anything about it.

But last week we had an exam, and I know they received high marks on it, and I know they cheated. In particular, the way they went about it really upset me, and the realization that I might be beat out on recognitions by generated work because our old professors aren’t catching it made me nervous.

At my university our professors will remind students before the first exam that accommodations are available to people with documented requirements. One accommodation is taking the exam in a more private room.

For context, I have taken a class with this student before, and during our last exam they took it in a large class with no problems because the professor that semester did not announce it (very old school phd).

When our current professor mentioned the private exam room, he joked that a student “might be lonely” if they took the exam in there because the professor would remain in the main classroom. The student interrupted him to confirm TWICE that the professor would not be in the room while they were taking the exam, and then the student said they needed to use that room. The professor (wrongly) asked them if they had the documentation and they said they were in the middle of getting it, even though it was clear they had only just heard of this in the moment. They took their bag and phone into the room with them, giving them full and unsupervised access to whatever model they’re using during an exam when they have already proven themselves capable of turning in generated work.

Furthermore, this student is not very sharp. I’m sure they are smart, they have said insightful things, but they are very slow in conversations and in receiving explanations in such a way that does not belie disability but a shade of immaturity and perpetually irritated confusion. Their performance in the debate frankly cemented to me their inability to grasp even the most basic of rhetorical arguments. You never want to assume the worst of people but I sincerely doubt they are capable of achieving the score they did without cheating.

It rubbed me the wrong way that they were able to manipulate the accommodations to cheat on an exam, an exam on the same subject matter they had just presented in a debate, and then be rewarded for it.

Do I mind my business and hope they don’t beat me out for positions or other achievements (such as in-class recognition from professors)? Do I tell the university that they need to be more mindful of the private exam room without mentioning the student? Do I confront the student? Do I tell the professor?

Because I’m sure there will be apologia and downvoting: I work hard to excel in academics, in both classwork and networking. I’m proud of the fact that it’s not easy. I will not apologize for being moralistic and ambitious. I think people who do not try do not deserve to achieve the same outcomes as the people who do try and it upsets me when cheaters are rewarded. It’s especially upsetting to imagine that I could possibly lose out on recognitions to a cheater. Using AI to generate any portion of your work including checking answers for exams is cheating.

I’m cross posting because I’m very conflicted and I hope I can find someone who has dealt with this before.

I have proof another student is using AI to generate work and they are receiving high marks on it. What do I do?

My main problem is I am pursuing a number of distinctions and achievements that are limited to a small number of people, sometimes fewer than 20 people at my university. I’m worried my ability to achieve these things will be hindered by the high marks many people will be receiving on generated work, while my genuine work (which is imperfect, because I’m learning something new) will suddenly fall below the line of receiving distinctions. To be fair, I currently have a 4.0 and there’s no indication that will drop.

For context: I am an adult returning to university after a decade in the nonprofit sector. A direct family member living in my household works in dev for one of the Big Bad AI companies. I have had a decade of paid and published writing experience before returning to university for an additional degree, and I have exceptional proximity to the beating heart of the creation of AI. So I’m very sure, to a near 100% certainty, that I can detect AI generated work. I’m also not going to pretend like it’s not completely apparent the instant you read it.

In my class we were assigned a group project. The other student on my team obviously used my notes as a prompt to create a slideshow for our project. It was obviously AI. They didn’t even change a single word or punctuation mark on it. It truly could not have been more apparent. There was a 34 minute window between when I sent them my notes and when they sent me the deck and there was NO way they were able to be instantly responsive in our ongoing text conversation and create a 12 slide deck (for a 10 minute presentation btw) with brand new citations and complex formatting in that amount of time. I don’t even have a problem that they used my notes in a prompt (you should probably consider anything you upload to any device as in the wind, regardless of where you uploaded it to), but I have a problem with cheating and taking me along for the ride.

I was nervous but I decided not to say anything in the moment, mainly because there was no paper trail to indicate I was consenting to having my notes be used in a prompt, and I’m nervous my own proximity to AI will be discovered and used to cast extra suspicion on me. If I offered the suggestion that their work was AI, how could I say “I know it’s AI because I know AI” without proving how I know AI, and then get a bad reputation in the department… Thankfully they forgot their converter and weren’t able to present it, only read off it, however they did not understand the subject matter at all and actually began arguing against our side momentarily.

Regardless, this did not affect my grade so I didn’t say anything about it.

But last week we had an exam, and I know they received high marks on it, and I know they cheated. In particular, the way they went about it really upset me, and the realization that I might be beat out on recognitions by generated work because our old professors aren’t catching it made me nervous.

At my university our professors will remind students before the first exam that accommodations are available to people with documented requirements. One accommodation is taking the exam in a more private room.

For context, I have taken a class with this student before, and during our last exam they took it in a large class with no problems because the professor that semester did not announce it (very old school phd).

When our current professor mentioned the private exam room, he joked that a student “might be lonely” if they took the exam in there because the professor would remain in the main classroom. The student interrupted him to confirm TWICE that the professor would not be in the room while they were taking the exam, and then the student said they needed to use that room. The professor (wrongly) asked them if they had the documentation and they said they were in the middle of getting it, even though it was clear they had only just heard of this in the moment. They took their bag and phone into the room with them, giving them full and unsupervised access to whatever model they’re using during an exam when they have already proven themselves capable of turning in generated work.

Furthermore, this student is not very sharp. I’m sure they are smart, they have said insightful things, but they are very slow in conversations and in receiving explanations in such a way that does not belie disability but a shade of immaturity and perpetually irritated confusion. Their performance in the debate frankly cemented to me their inability to grasp even the most basic of rhetorical arguments. You never want to assume the worst of people but I sincerely doubt they are capable of achieving the score they did without cheating.

It rubbed me the wrong way that they were able to manipulate the accommodations to cheat on an exam, an exam on the same subject matter they had just presented in a debate, and then be rewarded for it.

Do I mind my business and hope they don’t beat me out for positions or other achievements (such as in-class recognition from professors)? Do I tell the university that they need to be more mindful of the private exam room without mentioning the student? Do I confront the student? Do I tell the professor?

Because I’m sure there will be apologia and downvoting: I work hard to excel in academics, in both classwork and networking. I’m proud of the fact that it’s not easy. I will not apologize for being moralistic and ambitious. I think people who do not try do not deserve to achieve the same outcomes as the people who do try and it upsets me when cheaters are rewarded. It’s especially upsetting to imagine that I could possibly lose out on recognitions to a cheater. Using AI to generate any portion of your work including checking answers for exams is cheating.

I’m cross posting because I’m very conflicted and I hope I can find someone who has dealt with this before.

I copied a family from one town and then I used editor in another town to place them and they lost all their family ties when I selected them as my active household.

Is there any way in the base game I can change this?

Also, what is the best system for having multi generational towns? I have been doing this: family 1 is parents and kids. I save the game and make a copy of it. The kids grow up and move out to a new house in the neighborhood. They are no longer part of the active household. They become family 2.

I go back to the copy of the family 1 game and have the kids move out but then make them the active family.

Then I just have to play on two games but the relationships are intact on both.

Now I want to move both families to a new town and keep the ties intact but I can’t save them to the same household because now there is 9 sims total.

I’m looking for a book in which the MMC returns to a town that the FMC never left. Preferably, she owns some type of business or holds some position of power but she is embarrassed about her perceived lack of success, and they are thrown together for some reason.

I read one a long time ago, I felt like she owned a little shop, and was a witch? I’m looking for something cute and fun with maybe a little angst and suspense.

I don’t know how to search for this premise but I know it’s pretty popular. The MMC returns to a town (or general circumstance) which the FMC never left (hometown, friend group, old job, etc). The FMC is for whatever reason embarrassed by this (not having her perceived markers of success) or made avoidant in some way toward the MMC, however they are thrown together through some happenstance (perhaps a scheme, or a quest, or whatever).

How do I even begin to search for this?

I have a sim who is a young adult now who won’t stop sneaking since she was a teenager. I’ve tried kicking her out, resetting her, aging up, going to uni, everything that I’ve seen recommended.

Is there any other way to get her to stop?

I joined this forum because I want to learn more about proven methods of study.

I do NOT want to see recommendations for AI apps to use while studying. It is proven to make you worse at memorization and contextualization. It is the opposite of a study tip, it is a harmful, ignorant normalization of our current literacy crisis.

Mods, these posts should be banned.