Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold intro words, wordy, etc.
There is nothing to be done about it.
As an instructor, I am always saddened to read this. The ChatGPT rhetorical style is distinctive enough that I can catch it, but not so distinctive to be worth passing along to an honor council.
But still…
Don’t let a computer write for you! I say this not for reasons of intellectual honesty, or for the spirit of fairness. I say this because I believe that your original thoughts are far more interesting, meaningful, and valuable than whatever a large language model can transform them into.
Heck yeah. It’s not blah blah finger waggle that’s cheating, it’s that writing is thinking, feeling, and communicating and where all the value is, particularly at school. What are you trying to be free of?
I love the ending:
I have never seen any form of create generative model output … which I would rather see than the original prompt.
Those students had to type something in, and that would be more interesting to see than the slop.
(via Dave)