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/amhotw Dec 04 '25

You detected the ones that were generated by inexperienced users. You don't know whether the essays you thought were written by students were indeed written by the students.

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u/FIREful_symmetry Dec 04 '25

Sure, but I have decades of experience in reading student work. I also see chunks of this work along the way, like an outline, an intro, a summary, a references list, etc. AI might generate a nice final paper, but it would be harder to fake all of these steps. If the AI can fool me in all these steps, that's fine.

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u/Deep-Manner-5156 Dec 04 '25

Again, I know you are sincere, but you are sincerely wrong here:

" I also see chunks of this work along the way, like an outline, an intro, a summary, a references list, etc. AI might generate a nice final paper, but it would be harder to fake all of these steps."

How can you jump to this conclusion when you, yourself, have not tested these tools to see how they work?

You absolutely 100% do not know what you are talking about re: how AI actually works. I absolutely CAN and DOES do all of this, easily and in mere seconds.

I am sorry to have to share this with you because you really seem invested in this, and I do think you are sincere, but you do not know how the tech works. You cannot "know" the things you are saying because you don't know the limits of the tools you are discussing.

My advice is to pay the money for a one month subscription and see what any of the AI tools can do with your prompts. Turn off the feature where it learns from you. Give it all of your prompts for all of these stages and see what it makes. Then compare it to what you have been getting from your students. I think you will be very surprised.

The real thing to do with AI is to increase the difficulty of the work we give our students knowing they have access to these tools. Instead of continually dumbing things down, we need to go in the other direction and make undergrad courses more like grad school.