The AI detection software said the student's essay was 100 percent generated by Artificial Intelligence, which confirmed my suspicions but also threw me into a quandary--What am I supposed to do now?
I know how to handle plagiarism. The details differ a little each time, but once I've confirmed that a chunk of text was copied from an online source (and it's always an online source--gone are the days of hunting down stolen passages in the library stacks), I follow a very clear series of steps laid out in our faculty guidelines: confer with the department chair, meet with the student, apply the penalty, send a report to the Provost's office. The student may complain that it's purely coincidental that a whole paragraph from a paper perfectly matches some online source, but if the evidence is clear, I have confidence in the process.
Now here we are in a brave new world where I don't know where to start. I've already made changes to assure that future syllabi will include language dealing with AI-generated text, but this semester's syllabi don't even mention AI, unless AI is covered under the prohibition on having someone else write or significantly revise a paper.
Further, I don't know exactly what that "100 percent AI" score means or what will happen when I confront the student with the problem. If the student denies getting an AI to write his paper, how do I contest that? The algorithm says you're guilty? I just don't feel confident that this is going to go well.
So I asked for help. I'm working with our instructional technologist to make sure I understand the issues and possess the evidence before I meet with the student. Brave new world indeed! Why can't I just retire right now?
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