24th July 2025, 10:08 AM
(22nd July 2025, 3:00 PM)Weltall Wrote: I don't teach students, but if I did, I would make it clear to them that using AI to cheat on essays is only cheating themselves (and wasting real money, if they're college kids), and if you fake being knowledgeable for too long, there will come a day when you won't know something you would have learned, and it will cost them dearly.
Yeah, pretty much this. The academic dishonesty letter template that my department uses even contains a clause to that effect (written with more academic rhetoric, but the idea is the same).
That said, the university has been leading a lot of professional developments in the last couple years about ways to communicate ethical usage of AI in academia to our students. Like it or not, it's not going anywhere, but ideally, we'll be able to educate students on how to use AI to enhance their learning rather than as a task completer that substitutes for their learning.