When the Master's Thesis Topics Have Already Been Written
A student requests two master's thesis topics that were completed long ago. An AI may lie behind this, suggesting old theses as new topics. Accepted without verification, the suggestions produce a peculiar everyday situation.
A student writes to me because he would like to write a master’s thesis with me. In his email, he immediately names two specific titles that interest him. I am surprised: neither topic appears on our publicly accessible list of open theses.
I make internal inquiries, but nobody knows anything about them. Only after some research do I find the two titles again, among the master’s theses I supervised years ago. Both were completed long ago.
Our assumption: the student asked an AI for possible topics and adopted its suggestions. We do not know whether this actually happened. When asked, he does at least send a link to the very page on which the completed theses are listed.
Two supposedly new topics that already existed long ago. Brave new world, if one simply trusts suggestions.
Sources
- [1] Personal experience report by Martin Ebner
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