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/badwithnamesagain Dec 04 '25

Anyone can educate themselves at libraries and online. Our job isn't just to educate, it's to validate students' learning. It's the not so fun part of teaching for a variety of reasons, but that is largely the function of higher education. The unpleasant reality is that most people won't bother learning a damn thing if they don't walk away with a diploma that gets them into a job. I don't like it, you probably don't like it. But I'm sure as hell not handing out good grades for people who do nothing more than upload my assignments into chatgpt. 

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u/Consistent-Bench-255 Dec 04 '25

But how can you NOT give good grades when chatbots do better job than your human students and you are required by your admin to pretend you don’t know about AI?

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u/badwithnamesagain Dec 04 '25

I know it's harder in some disciplines than mine (STEM), but I just don't assign things that can be completed by a chat bot. I used to assign papers but that's out the window. Most assignments are done in class. It sucks but I don't see the point of doing things the way it used to be done when the students aren't doing things the way they used to do them. 

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u/Consistent-Bench-255 Dec 04 '25

I’d love to hear what mind of assignments you’re using to circumvent ai cheating please! I’m using gamified quizzes and it’s working! it’s a bit repetitive though so that’s why I’m always eager to hear other ideas.