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I’ve been working with so many students who turn to it as a first resort for everything. The second a problem stumps them, it’s AI. The first source for research is AI.

It’s not even about the tech, there’s just something about not wanting to learn that deeply upsets me. It’s not really something I can understand. There is no reason to avoid getting better at writing.

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I have always taught my students how to use Wikipedia. I teach them to never cite Wikipedia, but I have an entire back pocket lesson on proper Wikipedia use that I have taught hundreds of times.

It used to be that the students who refused to put effort in would just copy the first line from the first Google result without reading. This was easy to reject when grading. LLM slop can have the appearance of legitimate work at first, which can be frustrating when you are trying to quickly grade a stack of papers.