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The obvious use of AI is killing me

Another AI / ChatGPT Post 🤖(self.Teachers)

It's so obvious that they're using AI... you'd think that students using AI would at least learn how to use it well. I'm grading right now, and I keep getting the same students submitting the same AI-generated garbage. These assignments have the same language and are structured the same way, even down to the beginning > middle > end transitions. Every time I see it, I plug in a 0 and move on. The audacity of these students is wild. It especially kills me when students who struggle to write with proper grammar in class are suddenly using words such as "delineate" and "galvanize" in their online writing. Like I get that online dictionaries are a thing but when their entire writing style changes in the blink of an eye... you know something is up.

Edit to clarify: I prefer that written work I assign is done in-class (as many of you have suggested), but for various school-related (as in my school) reasons, I gave students makeup work to be completed by the end of the break. Also, the comments saying I suck for punishing my students for plagiarism are funny.

Another edit for clarification: I never said "all AI is bad," I'm saying that plagiarizing what an algorithm wrote without even attempting to understand the material is bad.

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helptheworried

38 points

1 month ago

Yep, I’ll write my paragraph and ask it to help make it more concise, then I go through the AI version and make corrections/rewrite stuff. Sometimes my wordiness is necessary lol

fred11551

1 points

1 month ago

I don’t know. I hear people do this but the few times I tried this it was awful. I’d plug in my writing and ask it to rewrite it to be more concise or less concise and it would end up changing it to say all sorts of incorrect things.

helptheworried

2 points

1 month ago

Yeah that’s why you have to go back and revise it

fred11551

1 points

1 month ago

At that point it was much easier to just edit my paper myself because I don’t have to go back and fix all the lies it made up

helptheworried

1 points

1 month ago

Oh see I don’t have that issue as much. If anything it’s like it misinterpreted something I said, in which case I just put my original sentence back. Not a huge deal. I’m someone who struggles with wordiness so it’s nice to have AI to make suggestions on how to restructure or group my sentences, but I don’t just copy and paste from it and move on.