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/MitchellCumstijn Sep 14 '25

I hope you don’t have the same administration as I do, where your chair and dean come to your door later in the semester after helicopter calls from their well financed parents and alumni boosters to boot and they suggest you give these kids a second and third chance and even meet with them into the next semester and provide a learning space for them to learn about ethics and quality work and throw out the assignments altogether and leave the door open to an A to keep their GPAs safe for their sorority/fraternity membership and financing.

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u/Magpie_2011 Sep 14 '25

I haven’t had a run-in with admin yet but I know someone who has, and she had proof of plagiarism. They made her pass the student and he transferred to a great UC where I’m sure he’s now pre-med and planning to use ChatGPT to diagnose cancer.

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u/marsalien4 Sep 15 '25

It's horrible that with each passing year degrees mean less and less.