AI has made cheating almost irresistible for students: to be able to get a 10-page paper done in 30 seconds is certainly tempting. There are some subjects students just don’t care to learn; they just want to get that grade (B is fine), check the box, and move along. I had classes like that; I can’t blame them.
But as AI ramps up so, too, does AI-detection software, ironically, also powered by AI, and used by disillusioned professors to catch the cheaters in their class.
My regard for AI has evolved from the devil himself to a sprinting low-grade bank robber to a hasty, awkward business competitor with no guardrails and very poor training.
I’m not that bitter anymore, but I’m still annoyed, and I’m pretty sure that will never go away. As a I writer, as a creator of content, I’m being robbed, immediately, consistently, and forever. My digital lovelies are being kidnapped the minute I birth them, the bundle is snatched, the treasure chest looted.
AI is like that not-so-inconspicuous classmate leaning over the aisle to look at what I’m writing. And they won’t stop looking. There’s no conscience and no fear of getting caught. That dude will always be over my shoulder, cheating his fuckin’ ass off.
So, like, that’s not fair.
But what are you gonna do? I’m too small to file a lawsuit like The New York Times. And I’m too few in number to go on strike like the Writer’s Guild.
So I’ll just continue to be robbed.
I’m just a writer, and, without signing up for it, I’ve become a full-time feeder of AI, like a sleep-deprived zookeeper throwing a steak over the fence at the alligators; I hurl up my ideas, and down they go, digested by some awful creature.
I don’t want this job, but I love writing too much. I’m addicted to this keyboard. And therfore ordained to a lifetime of steak-throwing.
Those kids in class? The ones getting thrown out of school for cheating?
They don’t got nothin’ on AI.