I’m tired of responding to discussion board post that are clearly AI

I am a hybrid student who takes some classes online and some in person while I get my degree to be a full time teacher. As a building substitute, I have access to software for AI detection and, now that the semester is finally near its end, I’ve started running these post that I need to reply to for the final time through an AI detector.

While I know first hand that false positives are a thing there are certainly tells in the syntax and high frequency AI word choices. In the 16 post published so far on the last assignment, 10 of them came back as 100% AI generated, two were pegged as human refined, and four were deemed to not use AI at all.

I know AI is going to become more prevalent in life and in school, it’s inevitable, but there’s something frustrating about watching students, all of whom want to be future educators, use AI to write a discussion post about the dangers of AI in the classroom that I then have to “thoughtfully” reply to.

I get taking shortcuts, and that classwork can be a slog, but it’s just so frustrating that people are paying money to “engage” in a virtual class environment that is filled with robot responses.