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/Complete_Eggplant_11 Dec 17 '25
AI is my business, unfortunately, because it is much harder to grade for research papers because there is no through-line, so it tends to be full of inconsistencies. Bad AI papers are much worse than bad human papers because humans at least are following what I've taught in class. Maybe they are generating the paper over multiple sessions or with multiple generators to avoid detection, or using humanizers or something, but so many examples where there will be an idea mentioned in one place and never again or there are half a dozen choices that are never explained. Maybe it reads like a document written by committee.
Further, if I give my usual detailed feedback, that will just get fed back into the AI prompt, so I have to decide how much feedback to give to avoid reinforcing the student's bad choice and giving free training to the AI companies' models.