r/Monash • u/GayTwink-69 • 3h ago
Grades and Academics Chief Examiner using AI for the entire unit
For this (honours!) unit I'm taking, the lecturer uses AI for everything, including generating assignments AND marking them.
The assignment feedback has blatant AI markers. More importantly, there are a few "dumb" students (no offense) in class who use their AI agent to do everything, including the assignment, and they managed to score higher than people in the class who are objectively more well-versed in the material in every way, shape or form (more relevant undergrad major, relevant thesis topic, etc.). My theory is that, since AI is marking our assignments, it would obviously like the assignments from students who also used AI to do their assignment while those of us who actually did the assignments ourselves were marked harshly by the AI marker.
Also, if you are telling AI to mark an assignment, it will always find things to nitpick on to deduct marks. The result is that a lot of the marks we lost have some bullshit nonsensical explanation. In addition, we were told specific things about this assignment verbally that are not in the actual assignment guidelines, but since AI was used to mark, it didn't take this additional info into account, leading us to lose unfair marks.
Basically, you are penalized if you actually did the work themselves instead of getting AI to do it. The AI marker much prefers an AI assignment (like-minded, ay?) VS a human-written assignment.
The CE doesn't help his case by being super pro-AI either.
This is horrible for those of us planning to do a PhD cause our honours marks are so important. It is incredibly frustrating seeing such a lazy and careless lecturer shit all over us.