Fellow educators:
1) Don't do cop shit.
2) Don't pay for a service that does cop shit.
3) Don't trust claims of system performance without documentation.
4) DO educate your students about what ChatGPT is and why they wouldn't want to use it.
Screen caps from some spam I received just now:
@emilymbender 100% agreed. For better or worse, LLMs are the future.
Teachers must ensure students can own the work they submit. Presentations, pen-and-paper exams, and classroom participation need to reflect the same quality. In many ways, this is just like copying from peers or family.
I'm probably gonna get reply-guyed for this, but no. Wrong. Instructors are not responsible for the work submitted. Unless they physically lose it. I did bad or plagiarized? That's on me. I'm the one submitting it. If I didn't understand the assignment, there's plenty of time to address that. I've had the syllabus since day one. The institutions of academia have problems. But do not categorically throw instructors under a bus driven by a computer.
The sixth letter of the alphabet is suitable for anyone (student or otherwise) who cant stand up and defend their position. Full stop.
Authorial authority resides with the author. It's unreasonable to ask a hypothetically adjunct instructor with 1100 students to police that. This responsibility does not lie at the feet of any instructor. Students need to bring their A game, or get their GPA destroyed and go home.
Full stop.
Academia gives no more than I put into it. I supply that letter.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
Adam Katz
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