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Coventina

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Thu Jun 25, 2026, 06:38 PM Thursday

Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era [View all]

The videos are all over social media, making students an irresistible offer: Go ahead and let A.I. do your homework — with the latest technology, you won’t get caught.

If you hate writing, you can avoid it.

Even established ed-tech companies are marketing with a wink and a nod.

These kinds of tutorials are now pervasive on TikTok and YouTube. They show students how to use tools known as humanizers and autotypers, which make it easier than ever to cheat. The videos — sometimes labeled ads, sometimes not — target college and high school students.

Humanizers rewrite A.I.-produced text to make it sound less robotic, formulaic and trite.

Autotypers slowly drip words and sentences into documents, making it appear as if papers were typed at a human pace when in fact, they were produced by A.I. They even fabricate typos, deletions and revisions.

Both tools can help students evade software designed to detect A.I.

Colleges and K-12 schools are trying to keep up, with A.I. detection becoming a significant expense. But educators attempting to restrict the technology, worried about students failing to develop basic skills, are often lagging in what tech-industry leaders are calling a detection arms race.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/ai-apps-students-cheat.html?

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Giving any kind of writing assignment now is basically useless.

I HATE AI.

And for all those "horse & buggy" apologists out there, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
This isn't about TECH, this is about HUMANITY.

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Back to blue books & pens. SheltieLover Thursday #1
This! ScoutHikerDad Thursday #6
Did you read about the 1 Cornell professor who had typewriters brought in for 1 class? SheltieLover Thursday #10
Long before AI, there were online services that offered to wnylib Thursday #13
analogy blaeckfoeoess Yesterday #27
My students must hand write submissions. mr715 Thursday #2
My wife is a professor Diraven Thursday #3
Those who lose to AI will be those that don't embrace it. Melon Thursday #4
This doesn't surprise me fujiyamasan Thursday #8
So it's AI doing the coding with human oversight sakabatou Thursday #19
Yes. They are still responsible for the outcome but don't have to do the labor of coding. Melon Thursday #21
Reminds me a little bit of Neuro-sama then sakabatou Yesterday #32
It could be done before AI came into prominence. To evaluate someone's knowledge that is lostincalifornia Thursday #5
I could easily see blue books coming back into the system again Torchlight Thursday #7
Blue books! senseandsensibility Thursday #9
Really...why? The reality is that the precise skills become less relevant Melon Thursday #11
AI is quickly destroying critical thinking in my students. Coventina Thursday #12
Progress isn't backward. Melon Thursday #15
So you are just going to ignore the studies that are showing AI is making people dumber? Coventina Thursday #16
Are you saying we can put the apple back onto the tree? Melon Thursday #22
Well, they won't be learning it in my classes, and if they use it and are caught they will fail. Coventina Yesterday #23
These are all false equivalancies GenThePerservering Yesterday #24
In some ways it is like the printing press fujiyamasan 12 hrs ago #33
I think it's really a question about the appropriate use of AI in the classroom fujiyamasan Yesterday #26
Maybe this civilization needs to die before we humans can truly progress. hunter Thursday #20
Are you making changes to your curriculum or pedagogy to address this? fujiyamasan Thursday #17
I am moving to assignments that are not homework based. Coventina Thursday #18
I think we can safely say there are more than two possibilities Torchlight Yesterday #28
One issue though.... Mossfern Yesterday #31
AI technology is the new reality of modern life..... anciano Thursday #14
ai worship has certainly brought gullibility to the fore. GenThePerservering Yesterday #25
Here's a good read: Ron Green Yesterday #29
A new age of learned helplessness. n/t flvegan Yesterday #30
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