From a university student: "AI Is Ruining My Education"

[Pluvious]

Interesting perspective on this overly abused new "tool"

...But gone are the days when professors and teaching assistants could detect plagiarism solely through intuition; many of them turn to detection software to sniff out AI-generated work. I’ve watched students paste their AI-generated work into AI detection sites, then put their flagged work into an AI humanizer to reword it to try not to sound like AI—only for their work to later be scanned and graded using AI. It feels like we’ve created an environment where software is talking to software while the rest of us sit in the middle of this dizzying cycle, pretending it all still counts as learning.

We choose a school, pick a major and enrol in classes, following the same steadfast path as students before us. The difference now is that we have a painfully accessible and socially acceptable way to do everything in our power to make it meaningless. I know I’m not the only student resisting the AI apocalypse, but it can sometimes feel like I am when I see everyone around me using it. I’ve sat in libraries until midnight with nothing to show for it but a blank page and jumbled ideas, while friends finish essays after an hour with OpenAI and humanizers. In group chats, people don’t just swap ideas, they swap prompts. It’s isolating to be the one still trying. Some days, resisting doesn’t feel noble; it just feels lonely.

AI Is Ruining My Education
I’m a university student in Ontario, and everyone’s taking shortcuts. Learning has never felt lonelier.

Charlotte MacDonald

( like many sites today, this is best view using your browser's "reader" mode )
https://macleans.ca/education/ai-is-ruining-my-education/

[mike_c]

1. so glad I retired recently

My last semesters were still relatively old school, and I literally rode the AI wave out of town. I've had this conversation with friends and colleagues-- today's students are cheating themselves out of higher ed.