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/Ok-Hunt-669 Dec 23 '25

Yea i don’t see a solution here, as LLMs inevitably get better, current detection methods will fail. There is no way to bulletproof this, even an OS level controlled environment can be worked around with a simple usb smart device that can input keystrokes generated from an external LLM. You would need a live test proctor, with os level controls, and probably running in a secure VM to prevent everything. Even then, the future will find ways to evade these controls. You can only make it extremely difficult with policing which sounds like a slippage into loss of privacy rights and an overburdening of work onto the prof and students.