University Students Protest AI-Taught Coding Course, Feeling "Robbed of Knowledge"
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Students at the University of Staffordshire are protesting a coding module that was largely taught by AI, with AI-generated slides and voiceovers. The students, who enrolled in a government-funded apprenticeship program to become cybersecurity experts or software engineers, feel "robbed of knowledge and enjoyment" and have lost faith in the program. They identified signs of AI-generated content through suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accents.
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James and Owen were among 41 students who took a coding module at Staffordshire last year, hoping to change careers through a government-funded apprenticeship programme designed to help them become cybersecurity experts or software engineers.
But after a term of AI-generated slides being read, at times, by an AI voiceover, James said he had lost faith in the programme and the people running it.
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent.
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