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Because if you didn't write it, you have to cite it.
If a computer writes it and you say it's yours, your plagiarizing. You're not allowed to pay someone to write the essay for you, same goes for a computer.
I do think the method should be mentioned. Kids should be taught to cite what they used ai for and which one amd there should be precise rules stating which use cases are ok and which are not tolerated (some SHOULD be tolerated). Detention is too much though.
All of academia is breathing a sigh of relief that you're not a teacher.
:) Ok. But why not to teach children how to work with new technology correctly? It's not as simple as AI bad.
Because the point of the essay is to teach a topic, and hone research skills.
Typing a prompt in to a chat bot and copying the result is not an effective teaching tool. If you wanted to use it as a starting point it may occasionally be handy, but you need to know enough about what you're asking it to know when it's wrong. You need to take the results, and modify them to both sound human and correct mistakes. By that point you might as well just write the essay. And sure, there's something to be said for teaching that, but clearly that's not what this student was doing, nor are the multitude of my wife's students doing that when they use an LLM for their essays.
Exactly, that was my whole point - llms can be useful for making nice sentences out of data that you already know are right from your previous research and the whole result must be overviewed to make sure it makes sense. Using them like this can save you time or even help you out immensely if you happen to have no literary talent (believe me). It's not ok to use it for the research itself, the results are not good and the kid learns nothing. And that's why I think we need to teach kids how to use it appropriately. It's just like using a calculator. You need to learn to count first, but then it can save you time.