Teachers today likely look back on those days with nostalgia.
Now, they face a more formidable challenge in maintaining academic honesty: generative AI.
Unfortunately for educators, a foolproof solution is nowhere in sight.
Half of teachers report that generative AI has made them moredistrustfulof students' original work.
And they have reason to be suspicious if anecdotal evidence is to be believed.
Quantifying the extent of this issue has not been easy.
Historically, cheating is not a novel issue.
The International Center for Academic Integrity reported that nearly one-third of undergraduatesadmittedto cheating on exams as of early 2020.
For instance, OpenAI has experimented withembeddingdigital watermarks in its output to identify AI-generated text.
Other innovative approaches have been attempted.
PowerNotes, a company integrating OpenAI services into Google Docs, allows instructors to track AI-generated changes in documents.
However, all of these efforts have proven to have limited effectiveness.
