Lies, Shapes, and Cheating AI
by Michael Doyle

What an academic year it must truly have been
It is good to not be professor or have to defend
Checking integrity with AI for the use of AI
Turning the shape of cheating AI is the truth of this lie

It is the struggle that has become the professing 
That the best they have is academically guessing
There in the middle of the ticking of the tocks
Is like the nesting doll of the ed-tech black boxes

The spree of AI-cheating has left campuses reeling
As they try to dissect comparative thinking for feeling
Was it written by a human or something trying to pretend
Seems quite the paradox by which to fess up and contend

That even at this point, it is nearly indistinguishable
And telling the difference is something nearly impossible
In a society chasing dollars cheating becomes rationalized
To an extent, one can say it has become professionalized

The loss of revenue has the old school feeling a bit cheated
As those who once ruled the scam have become a bit defeated
And those who once at the top of cheating are losing the game
Fingers are pointed at AI as somehow worse to blame

Turnitin;s anti-cheating chatbots allegedly remove all doubt
While even when it does not work well, schools cannot opt out
This is despite its delivery of fake positive identifications
That leave almost no way to issue needed corrections

Spellcheck and other algorithms were not taken into account
One has to wonder what this blunder is really all about
Ironically, teaching is meant to be and is a human endeavor
Using AI-generated systems turns out to be less than clever

Somewhere in these tectonic shifts, these cracks are certainty
Struggling with urgency to constantly test for proficiency
There is no way to escape the professor's need to teach
The students need to learn and constantly reach

College, after all, is for that mystery called learning
It's not a paper chase for degrees and grades we're earning
This may leave some with this stomachs twisted and churning
I'll repeat this - College Is For Learning..

(c) May 17, 2023  Michael Doyle
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