Are discussion questions becoming irrelevant with AI??

[davewill]

I am really torn about it with this class. We are in week 7 out of 10.  One student is VERY clearly using chat GPT every week.  Her copy/paste even includes some of the AI messages about not posting personal info in the chat because they use it to train their AI models.  In another post, it included one of those little “How’s this chat?” Messages.   Last week, she pasted the same 3 sentences over and over about 1,000 times. (No exaggeration). In many instances, I mind my own business and figured the instructor would catch on.  But honestly, His replies to everyone are pretty standard, so I don’t know that he is reading them either.  And our other classmates… HOW can people reply and not address the BIG PINK ELEPHANT in the room???  I don’t reply because I’d really want to say something like, “you forgot to list ChatGPT in your references.”  Or “did you know you posted the same sentence 1,000 times?”   “Is this just a test to see if you can get away with it?”  Am I being punked?  Is someone looking to see if anyone will call them out?  WTF is going on here????  I don’t begrudge anyone using the tools we have.  And I do beleive there are legitimate and ethical ways of using ChatGPT, but seriously, this ain’t it.   This week her post is supposedly in reference to a WSJ article that I doubt even exists.  (ChatGPT does that)

I didn't mention that I didn't hesitate to report the plagiarizer I mentioned above to the mentor. He said he was already engaging with them about it. I see no reason not to report the situation you have. The instructor will determine what action is appropriate. My feeling is that I take these classes seriously, and the last thing I want is for rampant cheating to be ignored.

I think you're running into the "bystander effect" where each observer assumes that someone else will take care of a problem. Just short circuit that, and report it.