“Apologies came back from the [AI-cheating] students, first in a trickle, then in a flood.
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“Apologies came back from the [AI-cheating] students, first in a trickle, then in a flood. The professors were initially moved by this acceptance of responsibility and contrition… until they realized that 80 percent of the apologies were almost identically worded and appeared to be generated by AI.” https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/when-caught-cheating-in-college-dont-apologize-with-ai/
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“Apologies came back from the [AI-cheating] students, first in a trickle, then in a flood. The professors were initially moved by this acceptance of responsibility and contrition… until they realized that 80 percent of the apologies were almost identically worded and appeared to be generated by AI.” https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/when-caught-cheating-in-college-dont-apologize-with-ai/
It sounds like there is a ring leader, or maybe a few who are modeling this way of "getting through class" I can't imagine students coming up with these bad ideas one after the next independently.
