u/Crisp_white_linen

Grading has been more tedious and depressing than ever before, thanks to the number of students who used AI to write their final papers.

The use of AI is completely forbidden for these papers. Nonetheless, some students used it. I discovered this because they had incomplete citations, which, when I looked them up, turned out not to exist. Fake citations are a hallmark of AI use.

I have seen other people's posts the past few weeks expressing distress over student cheating, student AI use, and generally feeling like the point of academia has been lost. I am really feeling it myself right now.

No advice needed. Just wanted to say: this sucks, I'm dismayed, and I'm not sure what the point is anymore.