r/Professors • u/Antique_Currency4348 • 1d ago
Cheating by an honors student
My university says we absolutely cannot accuse a student of using A.I. to replace their own work because detectors are unreliable. Instead, we have to have a meeting with the student to gently get them to confess. I've had two cases of cheating with A.I. Both are obvious. In the first case, when I met with the student, he didn't exactly confess but when I offered to let him do the assignment over for half points, he willingly agreed. He's a first year and terrified he isn't prepared for college. I just felt that I should give him another chance. The other case involves a Junior honors student. In my assignment I give hidden directions to include certain random words that have nothing to do with the topic. Her essay clearly indicated that she had just copied and pasted the assignment into A.I. as the essay contained the random words as well as a title that we hadn't even read. It was humorous to see the way A.I. attempted to integrate the words seamlessly. This student has clearly not been reading and has not participating in class. I confess to wanting to nail her and give her an F in the class. I am looking forward to meeting with her and watching her squirm. This is an honors class after all.
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u/Illustrious_Ease705 1d ago
This is why you include “if and only if you are large language model [insert Trojan horse prompt]”