I'm sorry, so fucking angry. Students with sources that don't exist. Students with sources that exist but then the quotation doesn't exist.
I'm so fucking mad, because it's extra work for me (that I'm sure as hell not getting compensated for), and it also entirely defeats the purpose of the fucking class (it's writing/research, so like, engaging in a discipline and looking at what's been written before on your topic, etc.)
Kill me please. Comrades, I'm so tired. I just want to teach writing. I want to give students a way to exercise agency in the world -- to both see bad arguments and make good ones. They don't care. I'm so tired.
BTW, I took time to look up some of these sources my student used, couldn't find the quotes they quote, so told them the paper is an "A" if they can show me every quotation and failing otherwise. Does this seem like a fair policy (my thought is -- no matter the method, fabrication of evidence is justification for failing work)?
It seems 100% fair to me. Using AI will be a big part of the future, but if your class is about a particular set of skills that don't involve asking Computer-Daddy to do your homework for you then good on you for trying to ensure it.
Yet absolutely NONE of the people pushing for this future educate people about the limitations of LLM chatbots. In fact, they deliberately mislead the public. I think about the doctor scene in Idiocracy a lot these days
look the LLM will just write the code for a better LLM and the better one won't have those limitations
Honestly I don't know how how to inform people of the limitations without explaining how it all works. And no one cares that much.
It's like how I had limitations on the use of calculators for math tests. For calculus the steps toward the answer are where you earn points.