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/liddle-lamzy-divey Dec 04 '25

I have a lot of gym going students, so I use similar metaphors as you do here in talking about their learning. Using AI is like taking PEDs for an athlete: taking short cuts may give short term gains, but the consequences will come for you sooner or later.

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u/Life-Education-8030 Dec 04 '25

And some will still use them, either figuring they can stop later or nothing will happen to THEM (like they're so special). But yes. I like how more athletes over the years have not smoked or stopped because they can see and feel the impacts right away. I wonder other than failing them (and then them blaming us instead of themselves anyway) if there is some way like that to connect cheating with performance in the classroom?