Jim Kosmicki: at my school, the paperwork to charge a student officially with plagiarism is tedious and difficult to prove when using AI. And don't bring up early, bad pseudo AI like Turnitin - that's just weak evaluation from a third party instead of the instructor.

This is my policy. I don't know if it's the best. But I just give students a very low grade when they use LLMs because the writing is simply just bad.

I get that it's a complete time suck. But it's depressing how quickly technology has made plagiarism inexorable. I got plenty of bad grades in my time because I wrote the paper at the last minute. But at least it was my own lousy work. The punishment for plagiarism should be expulsion.

at my school, the paperwork to charge a student officially with plagiarism is tedious and difficult to prove when using AI. And don't bring up early, bad pseudo AI like Turnitin - that's just weak evaluation from a third party instead of the instructor.

Maybe - and give me some rope here, I'm spitballing - this "students are customers" stuff from administrations was a bad idea.

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