keep seeing undergrads on social media saying “oh if a prof has a strict no-AI academic integrity policy that’s a red flag for me because that means they don’t know how to design assignments” like sorry girl but that just sounds like you’ve got a case of sour grapes about not being allowed to cheat with the plagiarism machine that doesn’t know how to evaluate sources and kills the environment! I have a strict no-AI policy because if you use AI to write your essays for a writing course it’s literally plagiarism because you didn’t write it and you’re not learning any of the things the course teaches if you just plug a prompt into the plagiarism generator that kills the environment, hope this helps!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I graduated my undergrad last year. I was a TA for a writing heavy sociology class during my undergrad, I did a writing intensive degree, and I still TA for the soc professor despite both of us having left the college I went to.
Anyway. Students get so mad about the no AI policy. I have been using various AI detection softwares that I tested repeatedly to determine their accuracy. It’s so much work for me, the professor, and then for you who will fail the assignment.
To undergrad students: we know when you’re using AI. Even when you’re using grammarly to adjust the structure of your sentences. We can recognize differences in writing style, we know if you are improving your writing skills or if you just were not the one who wrote the paper. We specifically word questions so you cannot effectively answer them using AI. You’re missing a human component. If you aren’t a skilled writer, ask your professor for resources to help. Fuck, DM me and I’ll give you writing tips and go over your drafts. Just don’t go to AI. Anything you write will be infinitely better and will sound more natural than whatever AI wrote for you.
- A tired TA.
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Also please don’t use AI detection software, there are ways to get around it, while at the same time false-positives are a staple of their functionality.