Cheaters prospered before AI made it easy
The academy was broken before ChatGPT made essay assignments look pointless
6 min readNov 30, 2023
For most of the past academic year, educators and academics have been grappling with how to handle the rise of powerful and effective large language models (LLMs), a form of artificial intelligence that can write essays better than the typical college sophomore. Methods for detecting AI-generated work are unreliable and are also generally likely to be obsolete after the next few development cycles.