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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Joe Hinchliffe

As more Australian universities use AI to mark students’ work, is it creating a ‘slop-cycle’?

A woman's hands write on tax paperwork beside an open laptop on a desk
Several Australian universities allow staff to use AI in marking assessments and providing students with feedback. Photograph: Olena Malik/Getty Images

Armin Alimardani has blue hair, is fresh faced, wears a smartwatch and describes himself as “a tech enthusiast”.

He is an unlikely sentinel, perhaps, to warn that a drift towards academics using generative artificial intelligence to help mark students assignments could pose an existential threat to higher education.

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