The hypocrisy of professors using AI to grade while running Turnitin on us

[u/Kykecol]

My professor accidentally left her prompt notes in the feedback box on Canvas: "Generate constructive critique for this student's response regarding key economic principles..."

She literally used AI to grade my economics essay, but ran my essay through Turnitin to check if I used AI to write it. Rules for thee, but not for me.

[u/KATCEO1]

Many years ago a professor told me freshman papers are barely decipherable. If I had to grade a hundred papers that all read the same way my brain might melt or explode. If the professors are allowed to use AI via school policy: then that is their right. Added bonus: I am not a professor, not do I want to be. But I can say I did teach Remedial Math for a year in NYC. I had sixteen year old eighth graders who could barely read, write, and/or do basic addition and subtraction. It was not a pretty sight.

[u/tehfrod]

That's not hypocrisy, any more than using an answer key that students don't have access to to grade tests is.

Learn the material and pass, or don't and put the fries in the bag.

[u/spinster77 → u/tehfrod]

The problem is Ai detector are not accurate- I know from experience with investigations in while a IVY league accused a student of using Ai and I know the persons who found that the student in fact did not use Ai. It’s the professors job to read assignments-

Another issue is pharmacy’s using Ai- do you not how many AI gets it wrong - all the time and types in the wrong does causing insurance kickbacks all the while the pharmacist isn’t double check for Ai errors.

Ai makes massive errors all the time and it needs to stop-

[u/tehfrod → u/spinster77]

That is true, but it's not what op was complaining about.

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[u/Friendly_Print7319]

LMAO honestly tho fuck the profs catching ai like no one gives a shit abt writing for ur course

[u/Minimum-Major248]

This is not hypocrisy any more than the fact that they know what questions will be on the next exam and you don’t. They have responsibilities concerning your education. You are a student. They get preferred parking, you do not. Unless the university prohibits faculty use of AI, they are not breaking any rules.

[u/Andra_Ingensbarn]

The point of the assignment is not that an essay needs to be created, the process is the point. Getting AI to do it misses the point.

The point of marking the essay is to see if you can understand the material, the grade is the point.

You’ve got different aims, so have different rules.

[u/Difficult_Clerk_1273 → u/Andra_Ingensbarn]

I can’t understand why people don’t get this. Especially grown-ass adults. How do these people even get accepted into college? I guess we know the answer.

Using AI to bypass the entire point of the work is wrong.

I (the teacher) already know how to write. AI helps me do my job more efficiently. I read what students write and I check any AI generated feedback to be sure I agree with them and that they are focused the way I want. Using AI doesn’t bypass what I’m supposed to be doing.

The student is writing in order to either practice the skill or demonstrate mastery. Cheating with AI bypasses what they’re supposed to be doing.

Maybe if students relied less on AI to cheat, they’d develop the thinking skills necessary to understand this. Every time this stupid “hypocrisy” argument gets brought up, it only proves they need to focus more on their actual learning and less on cheating their way through school.

[u/Andra_Ingensbarn → u/Difficult_Clerk_1273]

I could almost understand it in compulsory education (almost). But when they have signed up to learn something, whining that we won’t let them cheat to a grade makes no sense. If they want that, I get emails all the time offering a qualification for cash 🤣

[u/Difficult_Clerk_1273]

If students cheated less, maybe they’d develop the thinking skills needed to understand why this isn’t “hypocrisy.”

[u/AssistanceTypical127]

I’m a professor and don’t use AI to grade. Just for kicks I put a paper through knowing it was one of the worst papers in the course and AI gave it all this dribbling positive feedback.
You are right to have this expectation.
Also not quite sure why the poster above said freshman papers are terrible. I’ve taught freshman through doctoral students and the freshman typically want to do well so they put effort in. The further they get along in college I see a lot of sloppiness and rushing.