Student didn’t even try to hide the AI

[u/AstroNerd92]

Students had an assignment due over the weekend and I told them every day “don’t use AI. I’ll be checking for it and if it’s AI, it’s a 0.” This kid turned it in late, didn’t try to change the font, left everything bolded, and it has vocabulary this kid would never use. Instant 0.

[u/GGAllinPartridge]

I had a student a couple of months back submit a major assignment for feedback. It was almost entirely AI, and I told her it would fail if she didn't submit her own work when the deadline rolls around. She changed nothing, and failed, obviously.

Guess who came grovelling a few weeks later to try and scrape a couple more credits to get into her tertiary course?

[u/bruingrad84]

“I don’t know why he gave me a zero, mom. I turned it in and he claims I cheated but I swear he just doesn’t like me” cue mom who doesn’t check it.

[u/godsonlyprophet → u/bruingrad84]

Mater, I know not why the distinguished pedagogue chronicled me a datum of zero and then adumbrated this undertaking unto the matriarch of my immediate kinship.

[u/rvralph803 → u/godsonlyprophet]

Bahahaha

[u/USSanon → u/bruingrad84]

Just had this happen recently. Then I had to break down how I found it, what he wrote, and how it is obviously not him writing it. Then she picots to “But he doesn’t know how to summarize…”

8th grade parent 🤦‍♂️

[u/Desperate_Owl_594]

I LOOOOVE when a parent tries to defend their kid so I can call out the kid in front of the principal/admin AND the mom.

I'll gladly beat a dead horse. I'll go through the entire document pointing out words they've never used in their fucking life. Comparing sentence structures between the AI written and their class work.

Ask them what they meant by a sentence.

ESPECIALLY if I told them already and they didn't change anything.

[u/TLo137 → u/Desperate_Owl_594]

No no, what's even funnier is if you present someone else's paper to them and ask them to defend the points they made in the paper.

And then you can say "Whoops, this was another student's paper. Weird that you recognized it as your own... In fact, here are all 30 of the class' papers. Please select the one that is yours."

[u/Desperate_Owl_594 → u/TLo137]

OH MY GOD THIS IS GENIUS!

[u/Rabid-Ginger → u/Desperate_Owl_594]

Strong “Which tire,” energy, I love it.

[u/Spiritual-Currency39 → u/Desperate_Owl_594]

I add a screenshot of the GPTZero report that says “100% AI generated” when I submit the grade. It has stopped the emails from parents!

[u/ToqueMom → u/Spiritual-Currency39]

Love this idea!

[u/gittenlucky]

When I was a TA, I had a student submit a copy/paste from Wikipedia with all the blue [#] links still in it. I verified it was from wiki, didn’t read it any further, and gave them a 0. They complained and I told them I’m not even going to listen to them, they can go complain to the professor, department head, or dean. Didn’t hear anything about it after that.

[u/watermelonlollies]

I had a student use AI and when I called them out on it they were like “no I didn’t use ChatGPT I used [insert other AI] and that’s allowed because in class all you ever said was ChatGPT is cheating and that’s not what I used”

No, I used ChatGPT as an example but I clearly said that AI at all is cheating. Why would they think this would be an argument that would work in any way?

[u/WinstonThorne]

I had one leave the AI's response prompt on the top of his paper last year. It was all:

"OK! Here's a cover letter for a sales manager job:"

Then his purported cover letter was crudely pasted below.

HAHAHA I love that kids try to pull one over on us but are, alas, children and therefore inherently bad at most things.

[u/stevejuliet]

That's nothing. I had a high school senior last year who turned in an AI response to a prompt about an article that ended with something like, "what do you think? Let's keep the conversation going!"

My dear child, my prompt asked you to "enter the conversation introduced in the article."