I'll admit it, it is annoying.

So, I've joined this sub as soon as I got my offer back in October. Most of the stories here include the bad and the ugly side of adjunct which at first, I didn't understand. Working in the mental health field, I've seen people get jaded before when they are underappreciated and overworked, but can't get out of the system because it is hard to transition out of it. That was the impression I got before.

Yes, the "I told you so" is coming!

For the past week, I've had a real eye-opener moment about higher education. I've started to feel internally frustrated. I would say atleast 50% of the discussion posts is AI. I'm literally giving feedback to bots at this point.

The sad thing is that I completely know what they are going through. Both my BA and MS was online 100%. I was pregnant, nursing, working full time with 4 kids. I would be up late at night, literally staying awake over 24 hrs because I had a paper due and work in the morning, only to return back home to do more school work. This isn't a nostalgic thought, but one of reflection that it took time, dedication, and sacrifice to get a degree. I didnt want people to think that my online degree was a joke. I earned it and I wanted to show my kids and husband that the sacrifices we made wasn't done in vain. But now, there are short cuts for your short cut. And there lies the problem. You can't earn a degree online AND use AI to do the work for you. It cheapens the degree.

This is the new way of the world. Technology is created at a faster pace than humans can keep up. The only solution is to fight AI with AI. I would love to see discussion boards with an AI detector that returns work automatically when it doesn't sound like it comes from a human. My university already uses Turnitin, but I think it can go further.

I'm rambling, but I said all of that to say yes, I get it now.