Under studio lights, a small circle of teachers and students in Jubilee’s viral episode “ Is AI Destroying Education? ” took turns reading short passages, guessing whether they came from humans or from AI. Their reactions (confident chuckles, uncertain pauses, the occasional gasp) spoke volumes. When the GPTZero verdicts flashed on the screen, the laughter that followed wasn’t relief; it was the uneasy sound of a generation realizing that the ground beneath learning is shifting.

Across the country, classrooms have become quiet battlegrounds. Teachers describe the tension of not knowing whether the essays they grade are real or synthetic. Forty percent of students’ essays show signs of AI, one Los Angeles teacher told 404 Media . A Philadelphia teacher said students “go o

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