When Darren Hick, a philosophy professor, first came across an AI-generated essay in late 2022, he knew it was just the start of something bigger. Almost two years later, Hick says the use of AI among students has become a “virus.”
“All plagiarism has become AI plagiarism at this point,” Hick, who teaches philosophy at Furman University, told Business Insider.”I look back at the sort of assignments that I give in my classes and realize just how ripe they are for AI plagiarism.”
Students were some of the earliest adopters of AI-text generators when they realized their potential to produce essays from scratch and help with assignments. This quickly resulted in a rise in plagiarism, false accusations of cheating from educators, and a new atmosphere of distrust between students and professors.
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