This is getting complicated
I had coffee with a college teacher this morning. She had three dissertations to read today. I asked if she was having problems with AI and she rolled her eyes.
She said it was easy to spot the ones out of ChatGPT: everything is bullet lists (you certainly learn to recognize its writing style, too). She asks students if they’ve used AI and if they ‘fess up, she tells them she doesn’t mind – but they have to take the AI text and put it back together, in paragraphs, in their own words, so she can see they comprehend the material.
She said the usual result is, they’ve mixed their words with AI words, resulting in a clunky stylistic mess.
The worst, though, are those who simply will not admit they used AI, when she can see perfectly well they’re lying. That leaves her with a dilemma: she is supposed to judge their character as well as their grasp of the material. Now what?
April 27, 2026 — 6:05 pm
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