Educators Overwhelmed by AI-Generated Work
Instructors and reviewers across academic levels are struggling to detect and manage the increasing prevalence of AI-generated content in student work, reports, and applications. This influx of AI-assisted submissions is creating significant additional workload, requiring extensive verification and raising concerns about academic integrity. The current detection methods are proving inadequate and time-consuming.
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“what stops a student to take a photo of the test, eventually with a smartwatch, and get the answer from an LLM?”
“how can uni tell if someone copy’s and pastes entire 3,000 word essays and calls it a day. What if that person types it out themselves so they can’t tell on the history of the document, and they take away basic AI things like using 3 examples and - and such. This isn’t about me. this is about countless students in my uni class just not doing any work and using AI to answer everything and entire assignments for them. Uni said they will always know and have special software now to pick up chatgpt”
“I feel like at a certain point, there's is not necessarily a reason to go through the peer review publication process for some AI proofs.Not because "ai bad," but because at some point AI outputs should probably just be treated like public knowledge. Specifically stuff that's provable by "AI please output lean showing X is true," where anyone could kind of reach the same conclusion by asking ai.”
“Hello everyone. I’m a graduate student and a TA at a reputable university. I’ve been having a hard time recently with grading assignments. Most students are cheating by submitting 100% AI-generated work, and it really bothers me. When I bring this up with my professor, they just brush it off. My blood boils knowing how little they seem to care. What frustrates me even more is that 100% of the class has an A. I mean… is that even possible? This is a biology-based course. Does anyone have any advi”
“I am making up a list of stories students tell me to "explain" why their papers have all the signs of AI but absolutely are not AI no matter it looks like because they would never. I plan to post the list on my course website under the title "Tales Your Professor Does Not Believe because They Do Not Make Sense." My current favorite is the student who included an AI disclosure statement in his paper that said he used AI to brainstorm, research, and draft the paper, then edited”
“Due to the new challenges in identifying and combating academic fraud faced by teachers, this thread is intended to be a place to ask for assistance and share the outcomes of attempts to identify, disincentive, or provide effective consequences for AI-generated coursework. At the end of each week, top contributions may be added to the above wiki to bolster its usefulness as a resource. Note: please seek our wiki ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/wiki/ai\_solutions ) for previous proposed sol”
“I'm choosing to read this as an option for people who want to put forward a serious attestation that the writing is not generated by AI, and are looking for ways to make that pledge tangible and give it a level of authority that feels more significant than "I promise" by getting that event-stream sent and signed. In that light, it seems like a useful offering!I think it's important to consider the risks/rewards/benefits. There's definitely a sense in my circle of contacts that if a work is seen”
This megathread is for r/GradSchool to discuss all aspects of AI in graduate school, from AI detectors to workflow tools. Basically, if something is related to the intersection of AI and graduate…
“Is it a risk to use AI for school essays considering the AI-detection tools? I typically feed in all my content/write a first draft, and put it on GPT, and then iterate multiple times till it gets the gist perfectly. Still a risk? submitted by /u/PhysicsReasonable365 [link] [comments]”
“How do college admissions navigate this? I use Grammarly, and it flagged 70% as AI despite me not using it. submitted by /u/Dull-Cow9780 [link] [comments]”
“I am from South Asia and i wanna apply for ivy league for the class of 2032 in Economics & CS. I am unable to afford to hire a college consultant or guide so if i use AI and social media contents to build my profile, for sop each & everything for top tier admission is it okay? submitted by /u/Anxious-Student4119 [link] [comments]”
“Due to the new challenges in identifying and combating academic fraud faced by teachers, this thread is intended to be a place to ask for assistance and share the outcomes of attempts to identify, disincentive, or provide effective consequences for AI-generated coursework. At the end of each week, top contributions may be added to the above wiki to bolster its usefulness as a resource. Note: please seek our wiki ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/wiki/ai\_solutions ) for previous proposed sol”
“Hey all, 2 schools I'm applying to have separate attestation segments of the secondaries where they basically make you sign to attest that no part of your primary or secondary utilizes AI in any capacity whatsoever I used AI to help with grammar and prose. Look, not using it on secondaries is one thing, but my primary is submitted and done, and obviously I can't change shit Am I really forced to just withdraw my application from both these schools now? When one of them literally uses AI”
“This was my first semester having students turn in papers on Google Docs so that I could see the version histories of students' writing and I have to say I'm not sure it was really worth the time involved in watching the video playback. As others have said here, there are now file extensions that allow AIs to mimic normal typing. In the past, I've had success with "ghost prompts" but only with the most egregious cheaters. This method doesn't work in the Google Docs beca”
“So the best course of action would be to try and change up the predictability? I don't even know how to do that 😭”
“I spent 2 months writing my college Essay and when I got it to a point of satisfaction, my friend had told me to put it into an ai detector since her's got flagged and wanted to know if only she was having that same issue. I put mines into 3 ai detectors and it came back as more than 50% ai every time! The only "ai" I've used was grammarly because of some punctuation issues. Is that the reason it's getting flagged, and should I worry about sending this to colleges? su”
“I am a PhD candidate currently writing my final thesis. I have use AI tools to aid in certain aspects of my writing, helping with structure, brainstorming etc which I belive is considered fair use. I have fed the generator my ideas and used certain paragraphs that were generated to base my writing off. I have never copy and pasted but I am worried I will be flagged for AI use. I understand that it can be difficult to confidently prove AI use, as good scientific writing structure will tend to fla”
“You insist on a distinction while never defining one. You are, of course, welcome to explain what you mean. The motivations and means, at their root, are similar. There is no ethical generative AI, as far as I'm aware, and that is the means. The motivation can be summed up as "I don't want to pay the cost to have a human create something for my gain." The differentiation could be a student claims they would only use it as long as it didn't harm anyone else, but that is fluf”
“Which part? a) Harvey LAB tests are thin. b) V2 (version 2 or generation 2) legal platforms can crush those results for a given task, just not all tasks. 3) Analyzing a 10k document case in 24 hour is ridiculous. Or of course, all of the above. I'm willing to do some homework on this, but want to know which parts you disagree with.”
“Anyone else notice this or is it just in my head? The AI syntax is just annoying and honestly makes it too distracting to absorb the information I'm reading. Extremely disappointed since it's an increasingly important topic and could actually be useful, if it were written by humans with real experience working through disasters and mass casualties. submitted by /u/funnypharm2019 [link] [comments]”
“Due to the new challenges in identifying and combating academic fraud faced by teachers, this thread is intended to be a place to ask for assistance and share the outcomes of attempts to identify, disincentive, or provide effective consequences for AI-generated coursework. At the end of each week, top contributions may be added to the above wiki to bolster its usefulness as a resource. Note: please seek our wiki ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/wiki/ai\_solutions ) for previous proposed sol”
“Expecting to be downvoted to oblivion given this subreddit is dominated by juniors and law students. But whatever. Basically the title. Everything they send—draft, email, you name it—is directly from Harvey. It is painfully obvious they didn’t know what Harvey was saying. Didn’t even read the output before sending it to their supervisors. And they NEVER ASK QUESTIONS when they obviously were confused despite numerous offers from their supervisor to chat about anything. Multiple people who worked”
“I'm invited to write a disciplinary review paper, targeted for graduate students / researchers new to the topic in question. With how prevalent AI is becoming (especially literature synthesis), I'm thinking about how best to write a meaningful review paper that won't become obsolete within a year. Particularly interested to hear from people here who has thought about the impact of AI in research/publication for a while. From some recent talks I attended, I'm surprised by how much”
“Sorry for the clickbaity title, but I found this fascinating: Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat TLDR; It's bad. The professor gave the mid-term online and the final in person. 18 people dropped the class rather than take the in-person final. The average for the mid-term was a 96%. The average for the final was 48.6%. submitted by /u/DD_equals_doodoo [link] [comments]”
“Reason not to use AI? Will AI detection be improved in the future so that dissertations and theses of today will be run through them resulting in people having their degrees stripped from them? submitted by /u/Artistic_Cap_4867 [link] [comments]”
“Is anyone else in the US also getting spammed by AI-generated emails from students pretending interest in your research? I have gotten 2 today. The template is: Title: Question/Inquiry about [research topic] Dear Prof X, Paragraph 1: I came across your 2021 paper on [...]. I was surprised / I did not expect that [...]. Do you think that [...]? Paragraph 2: My name is X, and I am a Junior at X High School. [Some background about the student]. [Express interest in doing an internship]. Do you have”
“I am so frustrated and I honestly don’t know what to do and how to proceed with this. My thesis is about 50,000 words and it flagged 31 percent of the content as AI. My university wants the detector to show less than 10 percent of AI. I have spent about 6 hours editing it and I still have so much more to edit. I feel so frustrated and I have been crying so much because I did not use AI and wrote it by myself. In the properties of the documents, you can see the revision number is 478 and the tota”
“The product is the AI that was trained through the theft of other people’s work. Maybe plagiarism is the wrong word, apologies if so. Does not change the fact that many LLMs have been trained through theft and that this is unethical.”
“I review for two journals in my field and I've been noticing something that's getting worse. Three times in the last year I've had manuscripts where some of the cited papers straight up don't exist. Not misattributed, not the wrong year. Made up. Journal names, page numbers, the whole thing resolves to nothing. The manuscripts looked fine otherwise, decent methods, clean writing. Authors almost certainly used AI for the lit review and didn't check. I'm a relatively new re”
“Due to the new challenges in identifying and combating academic fraud faced by teachers, this thread is intended to be a place to ask for assistance and share the outcomes of attempts to identify, disincentive, or provide effective consequences for AI-generated coursework. At the end of each week, top contributions may be added to the above wiki to bolster its usefulness as a resource. Note: please seek our wiki ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/wiki/ai\_solutions ) for previous proposed sol”
“Please don't ask me to write it myself. My college assigned this report topic only two weeks ago, and I currently have placement preparation to focus on. I don't have enough time to spend writing the entire report from scratch. I would really appreciate your help . submitted by /u/CollarRemarkable3926 [link] [comments]”
“I am a graduate TA teaching for the first time and I am looking for advice on how to identify that when students relying on AI in their writing assignments. I know few can help with plagiarism but i have found AI detection to be less reliable rather than relying on detection tools only. What strategies and assignment design practices have you found effective for evaluating whether work is genuinely the student's own? I would appreciate any advice or experiences from those who have deal with”
“In the past I used Chatgpt business off of a shady website to create study guides (pdfs or docx or Latex pdfs) but now it's banned. I need an AI (low-cost or free) to create structured pdf study guides from materials I gathered. So I need an AI that can create pdf/docx files and send back to me. Thank you in advance. submitted by /u/80sDat [link] [comments]”
“Genuinely curious. What were your numbers for your submission? As part of course policy i have to submit and send the report to my advisor. All citations real and checked but plagiarism software always worries me as I had a dinosaur of a prof mark me down a grade as I had 28% total. The majority of this were my god damn references but he didn't know how to use it. Traumatic. submitted by /u/i_will_have_my_phd [link] [comments]”
“Due to the new challenges in identifying and combating academic fraud faced by teachers, this thread is intended to be a place to ask for assistance and share the outcomes of attempts to identify, disincentive, or provide effective consequences for AI-generated coursework. At the end of each week, top contributions may be added to the above wiki to bolster its usefulness as a resource. Note: please seek our wiki ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/wiki/ai\_solutions ) for previous proposed sol”
“For me it's probably an article from a well-known early researcher pulled out for being written by AI. Though not in my department but I'm pretty sure he is no longer affiliated with us. submitted by /u/ProfessionalNerd8657 [link] [comments]”
“This seems to be the newest AI gambit. I am teaching a summer class and have had five students submit work with fake/false quotes and sources. Each time, the excuse has been, “oops, I didn’t mean to do that, I just wrote down what I thought were the quotes, but turned out not to be.” They then send along the quotes that they “thought” they used, which, of course, have precious little to do with the quote they made up. Is anyone else seeing this as the most recent gambit? submitted by”
“Due to the new challenges in identifying and combating academic fraud faced by teachers, this thread is intended to be a place to ask for assistance and share the outcomes of attempts to identify, disincentive, or provide effective consequences for AI-generated coursework. At the end of each week, top contributions may be added to the above wiki to bolster its usefulness as a resource. Note: please seek our wiki ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/wiki/ai\_solutions ) for previous proposed sol”
“Im creating homework questions for students in Word and than im exporting it to PDF. How can i add a "hallucinate instructions" that students wont see but Gemini will read and do? Tried white text but Gemini doesnt read it. submitted by /u/HTG_assassin [link] [comments]”
“Has anyone found a way to counter or catch the AI slop? I recently caught a student because I placed white, tiny font into the instructions of an assignment that the student did not see. But I have students use Google version history, and brisk tracks their typing; going off of what I saw there, I would have never caught it. I see students writing essays suspiciously fast but have no concrete proof. I'm guessing their are apps or programs that will type out the AI output to make it”
“People who got in to the college they wanted without the help of those expensive ass admissions coaches, did you use the help of ai to make ur essays sound better? if yes, how useful was it? submitted by /u/mati79355 [link] [comments]”
“A few weeks ago someone in my department got pulled into a meeting because an AI detector flagged part of their thesis. Thing is they actually wrote it. Ever since then I've been a little paranoid. I started paying way more attention to keeping drafts, comments from my supervisor, old versions, random notes, all the messy stuff I'd normally delete. If somebody ever questioned my work, I realized "but I wrote it" probably wouldn't be enough. I'd need to show how I wrote”
“GUYS i need immediate advice on humanizing AI essays and how to not get detected by Turnitin? Thanks in advance submitted by /u/Comprehensive_Two834 [link] [comments]”
“I wrote the roughdraft of my college common apps essay is it fine for me to use ai to refine it a bit more to focus more on the given prompts? submitted by /u/Beginning_Ad_5069 [link] [comments]”
“Due to the new challenges in identifying and combating academic fraud faced by teachers, this thread is intended to be a place to ask for assistance and share the outcomes of attempts to identify, disincentive, or provide effective consequences for AI-generated coursework. At the end of each week, top contributions may be added to the above wiki to bolster its usefulness as a resource. Note: please seek our wiki ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/wiki/ai\_solutions ) for previous proposed sol”
“I just spent a whole entire week grading 70 biostat reports written by Claude. I have never spent so much time on every single individual report. PI said they could use AI to help them but 80% of the class handed in purely generated reports. And they are terrible! They look good on the surface but half of them are entirely tautological to even start with. Does country influence population? Is the proportion of exported food correlated with the proportion of produced food ? I even have a report d”
“(Reposting without the Google form - I missed that rule, sorry mods!). Keeping this short and relevant. If you were a teacher of this student, would you flag the following as likely plagiarized via unethical AI use? ("unethical AI use" in this case would mean "using the output generated by generative AI tools to circumvent the learning process, replace your own work or thinking, or attempting to pass off AI generated text as your own, original writing") Running into an issue”
“I am ok with my own writing (been doing this since before AI even came out). I'm asking cause of course submissions. Worried that this will cause me my grades.”
“I've read several accounts of using hidden text in an assignment to identify AI use. The students don't see it, but they copy it into the LLM. The LLM sees it as part of the prompt and returns something that's either completely wrong (resulting in a failing grade) or clearly identified as AI use (possibly resulting in a failing grade). I haven't tried hidden text myself yet, but I've been working on WCAG compliance. With screen readers, there is no truly”
“Due to the new challenges in identifying and combating academic fraud faced by teachers, this thread is intended to be a place to ask for assistance and share the outcomes of attempts to identify, disincentive, or provide effective consequences for AI-generated coursework. At the end of each week, top contributions may be added to the above wiki to bolster its usefulness as a resource. Note: please seek our wiki (”
“How are faked sources not immediate grounds for categoric and public rejection? Academic misconduct is one of the few ways tenured faculty can be fired for cause. And they should be!”