A Fun, Easy New Way for Students to Cheat

You're about to confront a pernicious new challenge that is spreading, kudzu-like, into your student writing assignments: papers augmented with artificial intelligence. The first online article generator debuted in 2005. Now, A.I.-generated text can now be found in novels, fake news articles and real news articles, marketing campaigns, and dozens of other written products. The tech is either free or cheap to use, which places it in the hands of anyone. Using an A.I. program is not "plagiarism" in the traditional sense--there's no previous work for the student to copy, and thus no original for teachers' plagiarism detectors to catch.