The teacher who instructed her class to include a duck, xylophone and hatstand in the story has my approval. Yes, these instructions were in white ink, but they were part of the instructions, and I'd include them. :o) They would be integral to the story, and if the teacher raised any complaints, I'd simply point out the place they were required elements (proving I had actually read the assignment).

Administration will never back you up.

When I was teaching, I went nuts if someone plagiarized because it was a complete waste of my time. I worked hard enough without having to grade papers that were unnecessary. This was before AI, but by typing one well written sentence into google, it would bring up any websites with it. Frequently, the geniuses would include the web address at the top of the page and that happened a lot.

It's always the same story, because people don't use the very specific instructions given to chat gpt when you want something original. You say: 'write a story as if you were a (journalist/copywriter/fantasy book writer/reporter/columnist), write it in everyday normal English, avoid words that might make it sound too much like an ai generated story, use not more than 500 words, etc. The more specific you are, the more it looks like something you wrote. Especially when you let it read something what is typically you. Instead, people just say 'write me a story'. And then Elara pops up.

If in doubt, I just copy/paste the story into chatgpt and ask it if it's its creation or the student's.

BONUS: if 2 or more hand in the same story, accuse them of cheating by copying each other. they can either accept that punishment or admit to using AI.

I am a college English professor and have had to deal with Internet plagiarism for decades. My solution is to make all students write an in-class essay on the first or second day, and make copies of all the essays. That way you have a benchmark against which you can compare their later take-home assignments. You can reasonably prove the plagiarism.

Man, this teacher is a human AI detector? She better clone herself.

Had a biology teacher in high school - on his final he wrote the instructions on the blackboard and verbally said "read all of the instructions before starting your test". The instructions were about a page long, and about 3/4 of the way down the page was this line "If you put your name and date on this test and don't fill out any other information you can turn it in right now for 100% credit. But if you have filled out any other information/answers you must complete the test and have it graded." Only myself and one other student read all the instructions and turned in our tests about 5 minutes after the class started.

"Looks like the teacher found a cheat code to unlock 'AI detector mode'! Now students are sweating harder than the AI trying to generate original content!" 😆

Update, stupid autocorrect. I meant functional illiterates, like autocorrect!

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My sister uses AI to grade papers and it even writes comments and suggestions. I used to be skeptical about it, but I am quickly becoming a fan.

Whenever we get told to not use AI in university (except for the times that we are) and that our lecturers know how to recognise AI writing, I always have a moment of worry that they will look at my AI-free work and go ‘ah, yeah, she’s a robot, no human writes like that’.

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the poor kids have the least experience, so this, especially in its most extreme form of, write a story about your vacation, is kinda elitist. i wonder if the purpose of this is entirely didactic.