After learning from the Herald that the image was AI generated, NESA said: “We want to reassure students that they were asked to respond to the question using the image, not the origin of the image, nor its construction. They will be marked on how they responded to the question.”
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Sydney University lecturer Armin Chitizadeh, who formerly ran UNSW’s artificial intelligence course, didn’t “see an issue, per se” with using the image in the exam but did raise concerns about a failure to attribute the use of AI.
“It can be a good exercise [analysing AI-generated content] for a student to try before they go into the real world, where they might face the same issues,” Chitizadeh said.
“But the biggest thing is even if we have a student use anything AI-related, it needs to be mentioned that it’s been used.”
NESA had contacted Schroeder to seek permission for the stimulus to be published on its website for future students to analyse, but are yet to hear back from him.
NESA’s academic policies state that the unapproved use of AI by students in assessment tasks constitute a breach of academic integrity, saying all submitted work must be completed by a student or acknowledged properly.
All school leavers were forced to complete a compulsory anti-plagiarism module, which included lessons on the ethical use of AI, before starting the HSC.
The second week of HSC exams will begin on Monday morning, when thousands of students sit the advanced, standard, and extension two mathematics papers.
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