I am so done with the group project
This is for Foundation of Interaction Design. We have 6 people in the group for 2 projects. 2 people ghost the group since week 2 and only appear to criticize the quality of the project and then vanish again; 2 people constantly come to me and tell me about how busy they are with all other subjects and have no time to work on THIS project. They only appear and communicate when the deadline gets closer. The last remaining person tho, he works hard but he can't understand English well enough to understand the task.
Let's not diving into the details of each particular event, but the thing just happened 30 mins ago. That person who is actually doing the work, just used Chat-GPT translate, copied and pasted the entire thing and called it "the introduction".
Like, I have done post-graduate degree in New Zealand. I am just doing my second bachelor degree to learn some new skills in Aus. I could instantly tell if the text is AI-generated or not. If a 26 year old who speaks English as my second language could identify, any professors could fucking tell too.
I advised him this is not an introduction and I could tell it is definitely AI-generated. However, he insisted and asked the group to work around "his writing". And here is the conversation I had with him with translation:
“I'm from Mainland China and my English is not good.”
“Just watch and change it. Anyway, the content is like this and it’s correct.”
“Just tell me next time. I have no idea what you mean when you say its not an introduction.”
“Otherwise, I wouldn’t know what the problem is, and I wouldn’t know how to correct it.”
“I don't want to ridicule you in this way. Attacking each other like this will not help in completing the assignment. I apologize for any offense I made. I also want to do this well.”
“Don’t go on like this, and the other thing is that I wrote this copy in Chinese against the app prototype, and gpt doesn’t have the ability to read pictures directly. I used translate, so it inevitably looks like AI, but my English is not as good as yours, so I didn't realize it. Do you understand? You can tell me what needs to be changed or you can just change it directly.”
I also had a screenshot of that AI-Generated "Introduction". Like... 800 words of introduction and telling me this is... accurate and I should follow the structure...? ok...?
I emailed the lecturers about all these events with the evident, and they replied they wouldn't punish the group on the grade IF I didn't clearly stat my frustration to the team first. (I stated I did in the later email but they haven't gotten back to me yet.)
I am literally so done with this report and I would rather write this report by myself.
