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«I long for the binary comfort of a simple problem like “cheating or not?” Now, I’m forced to adjudicate 256 shades of gray and provide sufficient documentation to defend my decision in case a student appeals my grading to multiple levels of institutional review panels. [...] It doesn’t seem like anyone wants to listen to instructors explain how bad it feels to try to do our job in the presence of this annihilative education antimatter. Instead, we’re offered AI grading tools to score AI-generated submissions for AI-generated assignments». «Students often carry misconceptions about coursework. They may view an instructor as an opponent standing in the way of the grade they want. And they see “getting the right answers” as the goal of education because that’s how you secure that grade. But that’s no more true than thinking that logging a count of reps is the goal of bodybuilding. The hard work of lifting weights is the point because that yields physical results. A popular analogy is that using an LLM to write your essay is like driving a forklift into the weight room. Weights get lifted, sure, but nothing is accomplished. I’m not hoping you can answer the exam question for me—I don’t need your essay to get me out of a jam. The process of doing the work was what you needed to walk away with something». https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116397070356098122