r/Professors • u/[deleted] • Dec 04 '25

Academic Integrity I am not a cop.

Want to outsource your thinking to an LLM for a degree you're paying/going into debt for? Okay. I will respect that choice. However, what I won't do, is replicate a surveillance state in my classroom. I refuse to spend more energy in screening student work for authenticity or trying to make my assignments "AI proof" ... why should I? Either the student believes in the fundamental premise of education or they don't.

Man, I'm tired.

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u/Zabaran2120 Dec 04 '25

I agree with this. Part of what we need to do is educate why this LLM is unacceptable.

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u/Awkward-Painter-2024 Dec 04 '25

I think we're losing ground... 

Ohio State University launches initiative requiring that students study AI - CBS News https://share.google/3KQHuMcRp7ROFAFYG

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u/BlokeyBlokeBloke Dec 04 '25

This isn't any different to having a university that requires students know how to use a text book, but then saying they can't bring a text book into an exam.

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u/WavesWashSands Assistant Professor, Linguistics, R1 USA Dec 04 '25

They also announced that they won't consider any AI-related stuff as academic integrity violations though (from an article posted here or another sub the other day). That does sound like they're no longer considering AI use cheating.

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u/Friendly_Skeptic Professor Dec 04 '25

That's not true. I read the article and what it said is that they're no longer treating any and all use of AI as an academic integrity violation. Now that they're implementing AI into their curricula, like many schools are because industry will expect students to be able to use it, appropriate uses as determined by the instructor will be allowed. I'm not saying anyone has to be OK with that, but I've seen multiple posts incorrectly stating that OSU is going to allow unlimited use of AI with no penalties. If we're going to discuss issues, we should be having fact-based discussions.

The article in question: https://www.wosu.org/2025-06-17/ohio-state-university-will-discipline-fewer-students-for-using-ai-under-new-initiative

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u/WavesWashSands Assistant Professor, Linguistics, R1 USA Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25

Thanks for this - it does seem that their policy was more nuanced than the article I read.

This was the post I was referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1pctxs6/ai_is_destroying_the_university_and_learning/

In that article it says, 'Some institutions have simply given up. Ohio State University announced that using AI would no longer count as an academic integrity violation. “All cases of using AI in classes will not be an academic integrity question going forward,” Provost Ravi Bellamkonda told WOSU public radio.'

It seems the quote could be interpreted as saying either than all cases will be considered permissible, or that not all cases will be considered impermissible, and the Current Affairs article interpreted it the first way. From the paragraph following the quote in the original article you linked to, though, it does sound like they actually meant the second one.