Teaching online in the age of AI is exhausting.

I'm growing to hate my online class and feeling completely burned out over it. I put more effort into AI-proofing my prompts these days than into making sure they're perfectly aligned with our learning outcomes. Every damn time my AI proofing catches at least one person who used ChatGPT to generate their response. Every damn time I have to have the world's most emotionally draining video call where they deny, whine, confess, and then blame me (or their coach, or their schedule, or their friends) for their use of AI.

If it was the same students over and over that'd be one thing, but it's an unending game of whack-a-mole — this is my sixth or seventh round of new student(s) getting caught cheating. Meanwhile, the over 50% of the class that has never (that I know of) used AI is getting far less of my attention than they deserve, because it's taking up so much of my bandwidth to deal with the cheaters.