To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.

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[euskalzabe]

AI is just an assistant. Not a great one at that, but occasionally capable. As a writer, I' do my own research, writing, editing and evaluation. I mainly use AI to act as a copyeditor, with careful prompts that guide it through some rails. Whatever it finds when editing my work, I take into consideration. The work, the process, the decision making, are all mine. If you treat AI as an assistant that supervises administrative parts (copyediting, for instance) of your workload, it can be useful. It can even be remarkably apt as a research assistant, it's certainly helped me find sources over the centuries I did not know about, thus expanding my own theoretical approach. But friction can never cease to exist in good work, because if you learn nothing, you have nothing to report to the world.

The students who realize that the easy-way-out means they won't learn, so they'll rarely if ever improve, are the ones who will own the future. Work and do the heavy lifting while you have few worries in young age (assuming a stable family environment where parents provide at a minimum money to pay the bills, food on the table, and a safe living space), use that growth to power your adult life. If you don't learn while young and have to do both at the same time later in life... oof.