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What if the kid lies and says they didn't use AI? How successful have they been in convincing admin and parents of their ai usage? While I agree its all damning, its still circumstantial evidence.
Back in the day just one instance of plagerism was very serious. If you got caught doing it more than once you could get expelled.
Now apparently everyone is using the plagerism machine including the professors. So much for academic integrity.
I had a sustainability class where the professor used AI to write the course syllabus, assignments, and feedback. a fucking sustainability class.
I contacted the office of the president about it at my university but nothing ever happened of it. academia in general has gone off the rails with AI recently. I used to assume those with doctorates we're bright enough to avoid AI but evidently that's not the case.
Never underestimate how fucking lazy humans can be.
professors are often to busy with thier labs or research, so they relegate thier writing/teaching to AI. before it was only done with power-points that barely gave substance to a lectures those were the bad teachers when they just read off or give little context to the powerpoint slides, comes time for a midterm, students were like wtf was she teaching in those lectures.
and then professors using AI to sniff out your AI. resumes are being done by AI, and employers are also using AI TOO. Also research papers are apparently done with AI too, some how sneaking into journals.
She just failed the assignment, because it didnt actually meet the requirements lol
Thats the thing, if you simply design your assignment well, AI will just... fail at it, and you dont have to prove they used AI, they simply just didnt pass.
Have them re-do the assignment in a classroom with the teacher (or any other procror) present.
I don’t teach kids, so I don’t know the answer to this, but I imagine what you’d do is add guidelines to the assignment that cause them to either lose significant points or fail if they don’t specifically mention things discussed in assignments and the classroom.
I’d also like to point out that, yes, we know when kids and adults lazily insert a prompt and lazily paste its response, but anybody with half a brain knows they only need to spend an extra 15 minutes re-prompting and editing it to make it nearly unnoticeable.
The answer is probably to test them in person with no computer of any kind in front of them.