I direct a graduate writing center, and I’ve had multiple students come to me this year in serious distress because a professor “found themselves wondering” if they’d used AI in something they wrote.
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These students were absolutely beside themselves. In each case, the issues had to do with communication contexts in which technical and professional writing called for highly conventional formulations. Situations in which good human writing is likely to resemble AI output.
If you teach graduate students, know that they live in fear of being accused of plagiarizing with AI, and that “testing the waters” to see what they say can be the source of profound trauma for them.
I just have so much contempt for this kind of reading. Stop pretending you have a good sense for whether someone has used an llm—you can’t know—and start thinking about how you want writers you supervise to acknowledge their use of it.
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