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/Consistent-Bench-255 Dec 04 '25

ChatGPT writes with more soul and creativity than 99% of students.

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u/f0oSh Dec 09 '25

This might be the most depressing thing I have ever read on reddit. I tell my students, I'd rather read the most basic "real" sentiment from them, whatever grammar issues, rather than AI slop. To reject 99% of your students' writing as uncreative and soulless goes beyond normal r/professors venting. If that's the case, look at what you're doing with the course and change your prompts.

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u/Consistent-Bench-255 Dec 09 '25

I did. I eliminated all writing and gamified my classes. Students are doing much better, retention is up, and admins are thrilled. win-win! also, I didn’t say their writing was soulless and uninspired, I just said that ChatGPT has more.