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)?
cheating in education in general, AI or not, is more caused by the financial and systemic repercussions of failing. When these students fail a class, it's often another few thousand dollars they don't have down the drain, and if they fail too many classes it locks them out of higher education entirely
failure is one of the biggest drivers of true learning, and the educational system directly discourages it
Oh I get that -- the financial reality is there for sure, and I recognize they have other classes, etc. Don't get me wrong, I know who the "true" villain is.
Doesn't mean I can't be mad at these AI companies for unleashing this on us. It actively makes teaching the skills to understand writing harder since students can get close to "good" writing with these machines, but the writing it produces crumbles under the slightest scrutiny. We're actively harming thought and understanding with them.