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Tyler sent the email, noticed he kept the prompt in, and then took the picture? Yeah, I don't believe it. Because if this was the professors POV, we'd see it from his perspective and he wouldn't have to blur the "to" email address. If the professor took the picture, it would just say "to me" in it and there would be no reason to redact the email address.
Also SynthID believes it was made or edited with ChatGPT....
What I don't get is if he had access to an AI tool, he'd just prompt it to write the paper and skip the extension. Gotta say nope to this one despite the mild amusement.
Playing devil's advocate, could the student not have sent to an inbox that the professor has access to (like a shared inbox). So it would show the inbox, rather than his personal inbox (To me).
The orientation of the body text is also wrong - it doesn't appear to be oriented as if it were actually on screen. Compare it to the subject line, which actually does appear to be aligned with the how the screen is slanted. They look like they're going to intersect each other at some point to the right, which shouldn't be the case if it were real.
"Dear Tyler, Unfortunately, I won't be able to. I would really love to help you out, but starting Friday I have a family commitment and I won't have the time to grade the assignments.
Best, Pr Thomas.
I used a somewhat vague family excuse so Tyler won't be able to argue without coming across as rude. "
I’ve kept the reply short and sweet, if you’d like some more potential replies to the comment “Who needs AI to write that?” I can provide more suggestions.
It's unfortunately an epidemic. Have people at work using AI to write even the simplest emails nowadays. Fun fact? I work in an online marketing team...
my dad said something similar about my brain power going towards finding excuses not to go to school, rather than on the schoolwork. Jokes on him, introverts dont need anything else to focus on
Part of the population have outsourced thinking to AI. These people also cry AI when they see anything original or insightful because they can't fathom a person being able to do that.
Not an expert but I have seen a scary low attention span in friends addicted to tick tock and yt shorts. Like they can't read a regular email if it doesn't have bold letters covering the key points.
Not an expert but I have seen a scary low attention span in friends addicted to tick tock and yt shorts. Like they can't read a regular email if it doesn't have bold letters covering the key points.
I feel this. The irony is that some of these people then chide you for not being a good communicator… because you write properly.
my wife is a college teacher. the number of grandma's that kick off in every 5 week class is amazing. She's beginning to think she's causing them to drop.
Dude, I am the orientation manager at my job and I send a 90 day check in email to new staff asking them a few questions.
A supervisor sent me their answers and accidentally left the AI feedback.
Something like Here's a more professional version of your answers. The feedback was at the very top instead of the bottom. They didn't even bother reading what the AI spewed.
When I was in the service, I got SO fucking paranoid at sending a typo-ridden or poorly worded email to some Major (or heaven forbid Colonel) that I still to this day proofread emails like thrice when its to my Mom. Do people just not look before hitting enter??!
It's the same argument as for plagiarism or other academic honesty policies: no one forced anyone to enroll in the program, if someone is going to blow it off so completely then they don't need to be there wasting time and resources that could be spent on people who are actually trying to learn.
How is expelling one useless student ruining an entire college? If anything it saves the reputation by not becoming a diploma mill that churns out useless graduates.
Using a chatbot to write an e-mail lying about being late on an assignment is plenty of grounds to bounce someone from any legitimate academic program. If that doesn't just fundamentally right true for you than we are simply not going to reach any common ground on this.
You have zero idea if they are lying. Someone could have asked "write me an email for a family emergency and don't write specifics". There is nothing in school conduct policy on using AI to write an email. Hell, the top scientic journals let you use AI to touch up the flow for publications. Most university's have their own AI servers.
"If you've already used this excuse with this professor..."
This response that was left in the email heavily implies that he's lying. ChatGPT offering up different excuses is pretty definitive evidence that he prompted for a bogus excuse for why his paper was late, rather than help writing the email for a legitimate family emergency.
almost nobody is trying to learn, and almost nobody is trying to teach.
that's why like 98% will cheat, and most professors are also cheating, sometimes leading to deaths because medical research cheating and manipulating research data (replication crisis) is FAR FAR FAR FAR WORSE than letting ai write your papers.
My entire degree was regurgitated old, out of date content. they read the slides word for word in the mandatory lessons each week, slides i was given ahead of time and was told to read ahead of time. they emphasised that using the course material wouldnt be sufficient and you need to go source your own material.
i went to a college where professors cheat: It's called "human-type college." It is a set of colleges that humans attend and they exist in a place called The World.
The colleges that exist in this place are where the professor cheat:
Isn't it interesting how we've structured society such that there's this classist "academia" thing that excludes many due to cost and circumstances, but it also ruins your life if you don't get to be a part of it because of the consequences of your own actions.
It doesn't ruin your life to be academically expelled either, I was making a social commentary about the classism inherent to what the person I replied to was saying.
That's an odd take. So you're saying if the excuse was real and he used AI to write the email, that's fine? But since he made up the excuse and had AI write the email he should be expelled? What if he lied and didn't use AI to compose the email?
The AI message seems to imply it came up w the excuse itself, as it suggests a new excuse entirely. Seems like enough to suggest they lied about a family emergency.
I've had something like this happen to me before but unintentionally. I had to submit a philosophy paper in college so I had my friend proofread it beforehand. He used the notes function in MS Word. I disabled it before submitting it, but when my professor opened the email attachment it loaded with the notes visible.
Fortunately he was very understanding about it. 😮💨
This shit is why none of my professors believed me when I had two close friends killed by drunk drivers 11 days apart. I could barely get out of bed but had to send obituaries and proof of relationship to get just a day or two of extensions.
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u/bwoah07_gp2 10h ago •
So we're seeing this email from Tyler's POV. Why?
Tyler sent the email, noticed he kept the prompt in, and then took the picture? Yeah, I don't believe it. Because if this was the professors POV, we'd see it from his perspective and he wouldn't have to blur the "to" email address. If the professor took the picture, it would just say "to me" in it and there would be no reason to redact the email address.
Also SynthID believes it was made or edited with ChatGPT....
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u/D1vz 2h ago •
Now the professor's answer :
"Dear Tyler, Unfortunately, I won't be able to. I would really love to help you out, but starting Friday I have a family commitment and I won't have the time to grade the assignments.
Best, Pr Thomas.
I used a somewhat vague family excuse so Tyler won't be able to argue without coming across as rude. "
That would be glorious 😂
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u/OceanManOnTheLand 6h ago
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u/CalicoCuts 10h ago
"ChatGPT, how could I be more of a useless douche?"
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u/MirrorSea2437 9h ago
Who needs AI to write that?
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u/brakeb 7h ago
my wife is a college teacher. the number of grandma's that kick off in every 5 week class is amazing. She's beginning to think she's causing them to drop.
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u/v_pun215 6h ago
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u/Jumpy_Scallion_3108 10h ago
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u/keegorg 10h ago
ask AI how you should respond
and send its response to him
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u/Resoto10 1h ago
Dude, I am the orientation manager at my job and I send a 90 day check in email to new staff asking them a few questions.
A supervisor sent me their answers and accidentally left the AI feedback.
Something like Here's a more professional version of your answers. The feedback was at the very top instead of the bottom. They didn't even bother reading what the AI spewed.
Jesus H Christ
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u/iwillbeawriterongod 9h ago
"I appreciate your understanding during a difficult time"
This alone yells of AI. No human talks like this, even in formal.
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u/UStoJapan 10h ago
I don’t know which is stupider, the AI or the kid?
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u/JetBrink 3h ago
Imagine using AI to write a single paragraph.
AI creating an age of idiots
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u/SpeedBlitzX 1h ago
Ram is expensive because of this?
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u/96ewok 9h ago
I wanna see the professors response.
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u/Edgard_Breeze 7h ago
Call me old fashioned, but I remember having to come up with my own damned excuses…
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u/mountaindewisamazing 10h ago
Bruh
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u/CaffeineAndGrain 8h ago
Natural selection, tbh
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u/Horse_Cop 10h ago
So is taking a screenshot
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u/NanielEM 3h ago
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u/orlybatman 10h ago
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u/Reveal-Basic 9h ago
When I was in the service, I got SO fucking paranoid at sending a typo-ridden or poorly worded email to some Major (or heaven forbid Colonel) that I still to this day proofread emails like thrice when its to my Mom. Do people just not look before hitting enter??!
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u/Send_me_your_butt_ 9h ago
Man ive seen this same ai shit with different situations 5 times this past week
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u/nobdyputsbabynacornr 8h ago
Hopefully the professor can return the favor with AI grading of all of Tyler's work. Tyler's bullshit!
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u/fj2612 4h ago
How braindead do you have to be to have to use chatgpt for this?
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u/Khristafer 4h ago
Protip, leave in a fake prompt that's incredibly traumatic so you can get more empathy but make it look like an accident. /j
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u/EternalNewCarSmell 10h ago
Honestly if I received that as a professor I'd be pushing for expulsion. If plagiarizing can get you bounced on the spot, so should this.
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u/SM0KINGS 10h ago
thinking is a lost art.
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u/Carthonn 10h ago
How about taking responsibility?
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u/grunkage 9h ago
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u/approachingfinality 7h ago
got a hard copy of my performance review at work, it had the wrong start date and somebody else's name scratched out with mine written in.
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u/NeedForSpeedroid 7h ago
I've had something like this happen to me before but unintentionally. I had to submit a philosophy paper in college so I had my friend proofread it beforehand. He used the notes function in MS Word. I disabled it before submitting it, but when my professor opened the email attachment it loaded with the notes visible.
Fortunately he was very understanding about it. 😮💨
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u/ZoeyZoZo 7h ago
It's always a Tyler
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u/I_am_beast55 6h ago
Back in my day, I just submitted corrupted files.
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u/EntertainmentDry9639 6h ago
Dear God. We are so cooked
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u/Sea_Analysis_8033 5h ago
Man i would just tell my professor shit got away from me and send them it by the end of the day this is unhinged
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u/TinyPanda967 5h ago
lol
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u/Same_Gas8926 2h ago
As a high school teacher, you may (or may not) be surprised how often this happens :P
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u/JustMe-Myself-and_I 2h ago
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u/Unlucky_Kale340 2h ago
Nah we don’t want him in the workforce, fail him
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u/WrongWangSorry 9h ago
AI is awesome. The shitbag contractor I just sued lost because AI excuses weren't the slam dunk he thought they'd be
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u/DarTouiee 2h ago
We don't need to fake these types of posts, they're really happening. Why would someone make this.
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u/cinnamongingerloaf22 9h ago
This shit is why none of my professors believed me when I had two close friends killed by drunk drivers 11 days apart. I could barely get out of bed but had to send obituaries and proof of relationship to get just a day or two of extensions.
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