ChatGPT has thrown colleges across the country a major curveball ever since it hit the digital ecosystem in November 2022. Students in high school and college classrooms immediately began employing the large language model to generate essays without doing an ounce of the work required to compose a thoughtful piece of writing. I’ve been teaching writing classes for the past few months and can say from personal observation that the problem is not just AI but also the failure of AI detection systems to meaningfully identify fake papers. It’s also a difficult situation because there are still a good handful of students who genuinely want to learn, improve their writing skills, and come about their assignments by their own diligent work ethic. It’s put many other professors across disciplines into a bit of a conundrum.
