I noticed the Summary button yesterday, and thankfully found out this was not available to students.

This "feature" needs to be removed.

Generative AI might have it's uses, but there is no reason for a student or instructor to use generative AI in a discussion forum.

Generative AI without citation is plagiarism, and proper citation probably includes a complete list of works and sources the AI has been trained on.

Yesterday I used the [Summarize] button on a discussion with only one post, the sample post.

The assignment instructions ask the student to select a luxury that Peter Singer's weak principle from Famine, Affluence, and Morality would require they give up to prevent "very bad things."  My sample post does this, entertaining the idea that I give up going to the movies in exchange for purchasing a life-saving drug.

The AI generated Summary, though, talks about Peter Singer's Utilitarianism and (falsely) claims that I've applied it to the topic at hand.  The term "utilitarianism" does not appear in the post or instructions; rather it is the theory Singer is well known for advocating... just not in the assigned readings.  This is to say that the generative AI probably searched the internet for information about Peter Singer and injected it into the summary.

There may be some uses for generative AI, but grading isn't one, and apparently summarizing isn't one if it's going to search the internet, rather than the discussion posts themselves.

I understand that someone probably gave you a lot of money to waste on generative AI.  If you can find a use for it; great!  But this isn't that use.