How to Cheat in School and Get Away With It.
Students can use AI technology to complete assignments and hide the fact that they did so.
Everyday more and more AI technology and platforms are rolling out for use. AI content writing is the new normal for many students. Many universities and school districts lack any policies surrounding the use of AI for its students. Teachers, principals and administrators have little to no guidance on how to respond to students using AI to complete their school work. As reported in a recent Substack, only four states in the US have provided guidance to teachers in public schools on how to use AI tools in the classrooms. North Carolina, being one of these states, has guidance coming from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) that concludes that in the future all writing will be created using AI and it is shortsighted to automatically consider AI as cheating. Subverting our minds has now begun to convince us that AI use is not cheating. With little oversight, AI use is a free for all for students and professionals alike.
In the not-too-distant future, it will be a common assumption that all writing from academic papers to news reports and emails may be written with Al. In light of this, it is perhaps shortsighted to automatically consider all use of Al as 'cheating'. Educators will need to rethink their ideas of what constitutes plagiarism and cheating in today's world, and adapt their teaching, assignments, and expectations to this new reality. - NCDPI
Now on the market is AI technology that can wipe any evidence that AI was used to write an essay, answer questions, complete reports, write news articles and books, or respond to political candidate questionnaires. Let’s say a teacher is suspicious of plagiarism or AI use in a student’s assignment, it could be scanned through an AI/plagiarism detector to find out. However, if the written assignment was completed with AI generated text and then masked with an AI deception bypass tool the scanned work will come back with no AI use detected. AI generated writers like ChatGTP are rapidly advancing as well to produce more humanized content which makes it even harder to detect and bypass technology may not be needed. Some examples of AI writing tools created to bypass AI detection are Humbot, WirteHuman, and Stealthwriter.
While accredited AI detectors, backed with studies, do exist they are now faced with the new dilemma of AI technology being used to bypass their detection. In fact there is a growing market to hire people to write content using AI and then make that AI generated content undetectable. One can find these services available on various chat rooms and channels on social media. If you aren’t confident you can write using undetectable AI on your own, just hire some random user on social media. After all, most schools have no rules that this is not allowed.
Until universities and school systems adopt policies addressing the use of AI, students will continue to subvert their minds, rendering themselves incapable to complete an original thought when the power goes out and the internet is down.