Students dumbing down essays so they don’t get accused of using AI😭

The only way to circumvent this is to write essays IN CLASS.

We’re doomed.

I’ve found myself adjusting the way I type online because I’m afraid of being accused of using AI (big em-dash user). Doesn’t surprise me to hear that students are reacting this way. The use of shitty AI checkers is probably making it worse. That’s why the only real solution right now is to make students handwrite the essays in class. A professor of mine did this in my last year of college because that’s when AI was starting to take off. Worked pretty well

Yuppppppp constantly “man i hope i dont sound like ai/that sounds like ai i better change it” but its all shit from my own brain

Let me guess. Our students of color will be accused of using AI for writing a well thought out paper. While the white ones who DO use AI won't be questioned and will be labeled as a genius 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Yep. I am applying for an opening for Executive Director. I wrote a cover letter using language from the job posting. I do not meet the requirements on the posting, but someone on the board (but not hiring person) encouraged me to apply. So I was really playing up the fields language and terms. I was putting emphasis on how my work experience has given me the skills, knowledge and attitudes they were saying they were looking for.

I asked my early 20s daughter to prof read it for me. Make sure I didn't miss small issues. Grammer that word check won't pickup.

She told me it reads like I had chatgpt write it and rewrote it while I was at work. It sounds like someone in highschool wrote it now. I get what she was saying. She wanted it to sound like a real person having a conversation, not polished AI. This is what we are doing... If it sounds too polished, oh it's AI... Make it sound worse so they don't think you did that.

I thanked her for her efforts and asked a friend to proof read the original for me instead.

Edited for words... See this is why I ask for proofs on important stuff 😆

I work with a lot of younger kids and they use AI for literally everything. I’m not surprised in the slightest the teachers think that kids use ChatGPT to do everything because they do. The other day at my work, there was a couple people having the classic LeBron vs Jordan goat argument, and this high school kid said LeBron is hands down the goat. I asked him what made him think that and he said he asked ChatGPT and that’s what it said. Like these kids can’t even have thoughts of their own anymore.

And then you get out of school and are forced to use AI at work 🙄

Happened to me a couple of times. I have to legit write like a middle schooler not to get flagged. screw this bs

Its a whole new world our kids have to manage and figure out a successful way of going through while also learning. I hate it for them.