My approach to dealing with ChatGPT in students' written work is pretty straightforward:
1. It's plagiarism.
2. Plagiarism is poison.
3. It doesn't even make your writing good.
4. I will catch you if you do it.
5. I will flunk you if I catch you.
Each of those points is deliberately condensed to fit in a single post—I deliver several long monologues over the course of the semester, laying all of it out. But that's the gist.
I also construct my assignments to make it very hard to cheat on them—a practice that I acknowledge isn't available to every professor, for a long list of reasons.
And another thing I say—and put into practice—is that giving up and cheating are pretty much the only two ways to fail my classes. If you need the credits, we'll get you the credits. Unless you cheat, in which case you're screwed.
May 14, 2025 14:05
