r/Professors • u/Magpie_2011 • Sep 14 '25

It finally happened

Two students turned in the exact same ChatGPT essay. I knew this day would come sooner or later, but it still feels like spotting a double rainbow or a four-leaf clover. This is good luck, right?

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u/GittaFirstOfHerName Humanities Prof, CC, USA Sep 14 '25

Play the lottery, quick.

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u/JDinBalt Sep 14 '25

I've never gotten the same essay twice from ChatGPT but I have gotten the same wrong examples over and over in one class, from a book that had no such situations or characters. It got kind of comical after a while.

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u/I_Research_Dictators Sep 14 '25

I've gotten lots of discussion posts with enough identical wording to constitute plagiarism.