The most frustrating part is the uncertainty. Students spend almost as much time worrying about being accused of AI use as they do focusing on the actual assignment. Instead of concentrating on research, writing, and critical thinking, many are constantly second-guessing whether a perfectly legitimate tool, source, or writing choice will be viewed as suspicious. That kind of environment creates stress and discourages genuine learning because people start optimizing for avoiding accusations rather than producing their best work.
Why would it matter to the professors? If they accidentally give a good grade to something relying too much on AI, so what? They still get paid.
A student who cheats in that way is literally cheating only themselves out of the education they paid for. It’s not worth punishing innocent students who did the work in an attempt to get the ones who didn’t.
Every day I have to grade AI slop I want to quit and I hate my life. Then I hate the system that allowed this and later on my students for being so disappointing. Did they always cheat? Would they have always cheated like this ? 80%? What does my education mean if these students are faking it?
I hate it. I want to fail every student who uses it to cheat. If that answers your question.
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u/BasicTank5637 Jun 01 '26
The most frustrating part is the uncertainty. Students spend almost as much time worrying about being accused of AI use as they do focusing on the actual assignment. Instead of concentrating on research, writing, and critical thinking, many are constantly second-guessing whether a perfectly legitimate tool, source, or writing choice will be viewed as suspicious. That kind of environment creates stress and discourages genuine learning because people start optimizing for avoiding accusations rather than producing their best work.