Steve Dice

Yes, very original.

Yes. Perpetuating sexist and transphobic gender roles is massive bigotry. You are a bigot.

Removed by mod

I’m sure all they’re concerned about is censoring and it has nothing to do with anything else.

Friendly reminder this is the average “stop banning mods” commenter.

Everyone also needs to speak in public at some point and some don’t feel comfortable writing either. You’re entirely missing the point. I didn’t say “stop asking them to write”, I said “stop trying to catch them using AI and be a better teacher”.

That’s exactly what I said not to do. Stop focusing on ways to “weed them out” and start improving your teaching. Assigning reading material and then discussing it in class is a much better way to gauge your students voice that any essay they could write by hand on however long the class lasts. It’s also a better use of your time; I can image few things worse than reading 50 essays written by undergrads.

I’m just gonna repost my comment to the original post on the 404media community:

Here’s a funny story: I once got a D on an essay for my History of Physics class because it was so good that the TA was certain I had plagiarized it. The only reason I didn’t end up in front of the ethics board was because she couldn’t find any evidence of me doing so… because I hadn’t. How many students are in the same situation due to overzealous teachers who have a bone to pick with AI?

Notice how most of the proposed “solutions” focus on bans, and ways to catch and punish students with almost none on improving archaic teaching techniques. Oral presentations, debates, real-world projects, essays on local subjects, using class to discuss subjects students previously studied instead of pontificating for 2 hours, doing away with homework, actually engaging students so they don’t feel like cheating… there’s loads of ways to teach without AI being a hindrance but it requires teachers to actually adapt instead of being stubborn, lazy twats with an inferiority complex.