I had a conversation with a colleague yesterday who had a student submission with a report that was 100% confident of AI-generated content. This is not only going to become prevalent…it’s going to become normal.
Because we’re quickly getting to a point where it will be very difficult to create anything that isn’t in some way ‘improved’ with AI-generated content (see, for example, Google’s Sidekick project). This isn’t about students’ cheating.
Google and Microsoft are building AI content generators into their entire ecosystems (see here and here). Universities pay Google and Microsoft so that our students can use those services. And now we’re creating assessment policies that will punish students for using the tools we ask them to use.
It’s crazy to think that we can regulate our way out of this, and an updated assessment policy is just putting generative AI into the wrong category.