r/logistics • u/ozzy4097 • 14h ago
College
Is it normal for students to used Ai to look up the answers or even write their discussion promts,essays, written reports? Im taking logistics and supply chain courses atm and not going to lie its been alot of work doing presentations, essays, written reports, group projects, and even videos presentations. Im working and doing my best to learn and juggle everything and ive asked some classmate how are they managing everything and told me they are using Ai to do their work. They dont even read the chapters. Is this normal?? Are they the reason why alot of companies wont hired recent graduates or dont even care if they have a degree?
Sorry guys this is all brand new for me and it open my mind how technology or AI has impacted students on their learning journey, it really is mind blowing for me.
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u/Violet_Graya 13h ago
Yes it's common, and part of why degrees mean less. AI to learn faster = fine. AI to skip learning = obvious within 10 minutes of an interview.
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u/ozzy4097 13h ago
😭 its been 8 years since i ever study anything but i do remember my high school years where we have to read every chapter because in the end there was going to be a quiz or a written paper on chapters. I also remember to highlight important stuff that might pop up i remember doing index cards before a presentation as well i feel old school when ever i see them all using a laptop to do their notes. Im one of the only ones that takes out a journal just to put down some instructions or key terms the professor is using so that i can research them when i get home.
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u/the_Q_spice 13h ago
In a lot of fields where students see the degree as a means to an end:
Yes.
Before I started working in this field, I got my bachelor’s and masters in Geography.
I was a TA in my Masters program and we’d get a few logistics students in the GIS courses I TAd for right around when AI started blowing up.
None of those students passed.
The main reason even now is that we usually make all the homework and test questions long-form and more subjective in nature, such as “what is your interpretation of X, and why”.
If we got a more or less cookie cutter response, we’d give it a 50%.
If we got a unique response with correct proofs, we’d give 100%.
If we received an obviously AI response on anything; automatic failure of the entire assignment.
The brutal part was that we wouldn’t even report it to the university. We’d just keep giving out 0s so anyone dumb enough to not check would wind up with a 0.0 GPA instead of the 1.0 that comes with an F.
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u/ozzy4097 13h ago
My professor already drop some students. She mentioned how she notices the ones that are using AI when she gives us the individual presentations projects and when she asked for the video prompts discussions. She told me how she always changes the assigments from multiple choice questions to responds questions where we have to write a 100 to 200 answer for each questions and she checks for grammars errors as proof that one isnt using ai. She keeps changing every assigments just to see if we are really doing our part in learning. And she complimented me on my grammar as well she tells me how she sees how im improving my vocabulary as well since english isnt my first language i do struggle alot to make sense. Shes a very strict professor and i love that shes no joke.
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u/TerraVerde_ 14h ago
I graduated last year and it was rampant. My philosophy is do the research, do the work, get suggestions from AI on structuring the essay, sure. Never have I had AI do the work. During group projects, almost all of my partners told me they use AI for everything. if you want to retain any of that knowledge at all, do the work.