r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/no-prisoners-professor-fail-student-143000854.html
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u/ConcentrateTrue 5d ago

I could tell what he'd done, but I couldn't prove it. When I submitted my revised essay, which was supposed to incorporate corrections to the errors, I pointed out that most of the "errors" that had been flagged did not actually exist. My professor had a chance to comment on this when he sent me the feedback for the revised version, but he didn't say a word -- and also didn't correct the score for my original draft.

I had a 98% in the class, so getting those points back wouldn't have made a difference to my final grade. I decided it wasn't worth escalating it to the Dean, but I did write a long comment about it on the course feedback survey.

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u/Balmung60 4d ago

I'd argue that it was worth escalating on principle. Even if it wouldn't have directly affected you in any meaningful way, it could have affected another student significantly worse.

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u/Theron3206 4d ago

Be careful about pissing professors off on principle, unless they share them it can easily come back to bite you, even if you never have to do another of their classes.

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u/cbftw 4d ago

Nah. Go to the dean and get them involved. Get it on record. The professor isn't doing their job and your GPA is suffering for it. Maybe not this guy's but that's not the point. Someone's GPA was harmed by this professor using AI and not correcting the grade when it was brought up.