I am not saying that completely disallowing AI is the right decision. But if you see text that is clearly generated by AI and does not make any sense, it sure would be nice if you could just tell the students to actually read their sources instead of having to argue with them why they should do so. Similarly, I can see why HN moderators do not want to argue with the 100s of spam posters per day on /newest.
Anyway, my university did not ban AI, and now most students have degraded to proxies between teaching assistants and ChatGPT.
Anyway, my university did not ban AI, and now most students have degraded to proxies between teaching assistants and ChatGPT.