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Last night, one of my students thought he had read a specific poem by a poet we're about to read, but I didn't recognize his description of the content of the poem. So he opens up Google and types in the poet's name and the topic, and it just spat out a fabricated poem in her style. This is what's really unnerving--"AI" is not adding value to a search service that works; it's flooding the search results with so much crap that you can't even verify a date or the existence of a text anymore.
@carrideen On a lark, a while back, I tried to use an AI to help with lesson planning. It gave me a list of 10 poems to use as companions to Fahrenheit 451. 6 of the 10 poems don't exist and 2 of the last 4 were not theme-based at all; I have no idea why it offered up those - listed on the same page somewhere maybe? And the thing is, I can spot this, but my students can't. I don't even know how to feel about this. All I can really do is caution my students about it, and gently "call them out" on AI content when I spot it. And by that I mean, query them verbally to ascertain if they wrote it, and if they didn't, explain our department's position and have them re-write those parts. It's a tool some people will use, and if they are, they need to do so appropriately.