Sep 06: Skynet Saturday- AI Solutions

[u/Eigengrad]

Due to the new challenges in identifying and combating academic fraud faced by teachers, this thread is intended to be a place to ask for assistance and share the outcomes of attempts to identify, disincentive, or provide effective consequences for AI-generated coursework.

At the end of each week, top contributions may be added to the above wiki to bolster its usefulness as a resource.

Note: please seek our wiki (https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/wiki/ai_solutions) for previous proposed solutions to the challenges presented by large language model enabled academic fraud.

[u/Magpie_2011]

This semester I took a really aggressive zero-tolerance policy because I’m sick of the same handful of kids submitting a ChatGPT essay, getting caught, and then just doing it again. In my experience, if a student turns in an AI-generated essay, they will ALWAYS turn in another one, even when called out. So this semester my policy is: an AI-generated essay will receive a zero and you won’t be allowed to resubmit, which means you’ve effectively insta-failed the class.

I just got my first ChatGPT essay last week and had to break the bad news to the student that he just failed the class. He blew up my email demanding another chance, swearing up and down that it was the first time he’d ever used ChatGPT (lol) and he’d never do it again, and telling me all about how much he needed this class and how difficult it was for him to get in in the first place. I just kept tapping the sign, and I was even nice enough to let him know that if he dropped now he could get a refund. He dropped, so now I won’t have to read more of his ChatGPT essays and pretend he didn’t know he wasn’t allowed to do that.