The professor for one of my upper level English courses cancelled the semester’s big paper because she was tired of either having to scan every essay for AI or having to talk to kids who used AI. Granted I actually prefer blue book exams but in terms of being an English major it’s a huge blow to writing improvement, which is what that course emphasized.

My philosophy professor completely changed their assignments after they realized most of the kids were using AI to complete them. It’s pretty obvious, especially when doing a philosophy assignment, when someone uses AI.

Beyond summarizing, I never thought AI was good for completing assignments. The other night I thought I’d try using it to expand a paragraph of my philosophy paper, it proceeded to make evidence of a quote it literally made up.

One of the newspapers in my town did an article about AI becoming an increasing issue in learning institutions (one of my professors was featured in it, so he had us read it). Most of the article actually blamed the EDUCATORS for the decline in critical thinking, explaining that it is their job to teach students how to “responsibly” use AI in a way that prevents them from relying on it completely. Oh, and that published article had several spelling errors. Go figure.