A student I like turns in an essay. (She won me over because she brings “Crime and Punishment” to class, and her last name is Russian, which makes me think of the great-grandparents I never met who left Russia for the reasons many Jews left.) A few sentences into her essay, I know she didn’t write it.

Teachers all over the country are getting these papers. The essays seem only distantly related to the question you posed to students — and the AI machine drags in a few quotations and combines words in a way a high school student never would. As a teacher in this day and age, you’re tired, so you don’t even keep reading. The student comes in to meet with you. The website you use states that it is 89% certain that the paper you’re reading was written by AI. Your student squirms.

Your student

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