On college campuses across the United States, the introduction of generative artificial intelligence has sparked a sort of arms race.
Rapid adoption of AI by young people set off waves of anxiety that students could cheat their way through college, leading many professors to run papers through online AI detectors that inspect whether students used large language models to write their work for them. Some colleges say they’ve caught hundreds of students cheating this way.
However, since their debut a few years ago, AI detectors have repeatedly been criticized as unreliable and more likely to flag non-native English speakers on suspicion of plagiarism. And a growing number of college students also say their work has been falsely flagged as written by AI—several have filed lawsuits against universities over the emotional distress and punishments they say they faced as a result.
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