I thought this was going to be about middle and high school students, not PhD students 😬
I wonder if a way to deal with this is to just accept that students are going to use LLMs and have them bring in both their prompts and what output they think looks good. That way you can at least bypass the lie that they’re not using ChatGPT, try to see what they’re going for and what they’re not confident about or don’t understand, and have some honest discussions about that. Trying to instill the idea that using an LLM should be close to the beginning of the process and not the end would be nice, but my hopes aren’t high on that front.
I think you might be onto something. A research paper or thesis, when boiled down, is just a product. How the product is made is difficult to determine, and there’s an inherent incentive to make it the best product by any and all means. But if it were instead a process that was facilitated and had to be done in-person, that can be controlled more tightly
I thought this was going to be about middle and high school students, not PhD students 😬
I wonder if a way to deal with this is to just accept that students are going to use LLMs and have them bring in both their prompts and what output they think looks good. That way you can at least bypass the lie that they’re not using ChatGPT, try to see what they’re going for and what they’re not confident about or don’t understand, and have some honest discussions about that. Trying to instill the idea that using an LLM should be close to the beginning of the process and not the end would be nice, but my hopes aren’t high on that front.
I think you might be onto something. A research paper or thesis, when boiled down, is just a product. How the product is made is difficult to determine, and there’s an inherent incentive to make it the best product by any and all means. But if it were instead a process that was facilitated and had to be done in-person, that can be controlled more tightly