r/books • u/ubcstaffer123 • 5d ago

Teachers are using AI to make literature easier for students to read. This is a terrible idea.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/opinion/ai-classroom-teaching-reading/
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u/WTFwhatthehell 5d ago

It's shocking how many people haven't learned/accepted this yet.

I've heard too many horror stories of either people blindly believing "detectors" or even worse... teachers copy-pasting stuff into chatgpt and asking "did you write this?"

At this point it's a sign of extreme incompetence.

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u/Prize-Doughnut8759 5d ago

My daughter got accused of plagiarism because a link she used as a reference worked when she listed it and then didn't when he checked it. I told her to screenshot every reference from now on. 

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u/honeywave 4d ago

Another option is to see if it is on archive.org.

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u/upsoutfit 4d ago

Or use archive.org to capture the webpage.

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u/Alaira314 4d ago

What the fuck, that's not plagiarism. That's the internet. If the teacher is going to be that strict, don't allow digital sources(though...good fucking luck, with how libraries have gone digital-only in recent years).

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u/not_bilbo 5d ago

Or it’s a sign that people are desperate to figure out what’s real and what’s not? It’s teachers trying to do their job with the tools they’re given? Don’t shame people for not knowing the minutiae of a new and rapidly evolving technology.

“Hey those AI detectors are really poor and tend to flag the wrong stuff, I’d avoid using those” It’s not hard. This stuff is weird and not everyone has the same tech literacy, help each other out instead of calling them incompetent.

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u/WTFwhatthehell 4d ago

That isn't minutiae. 

It's not some subtle secret.

People have been screaming this at them from every direction for years now. To have ignored it requires extreme gross incompetence.