Most of my students have been using AI on papers, even though its use is banned in my class. I'm allowed by my department only to penalize students for whom I have proof,* which ultimately means the students who used AI specifically for citation and quote generation.
It's a PITA that students are slipping by. They don't think we can tell they've used AI; we can tell. It's reeeaaaal obvious when an undergrad is magically writing at a peer-reviewed-journal level. The disrespect is crazy. Teachers simply have little recourse and no energy to deal with it.
Every student I've confronted has thought I caught on purely due to the writing style. It doesn't occur to them that the sources, the actual information, could be incorrect. I have had students resubmit their work, AI ostensibly cleaned away, and the hallucinations are still there.
My colleagues and I have no way of solving this in the long term. Students tell me to "ask ChatGPT" about things instead of to "Google it". They don't know what citations are. Their ability to write a basic short paper is nonexistent. They don't believe in their own ability to learn to do the work, and they don't value the effort.
AI is plagiarism, and I fully believe that schools (and any institutions concerned with ethics) need to introduce a zero-tolerance policy and to back up teachers on enforcing it.
*this is because students can contest the ruling, and it gets messy. Schools like to avoid messiness.
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