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I recently deployed an AI detector for a large K12 platform (multi-state 20k+ students), and they DO work in the sense of saving teachers time. You have to understand, you are a smart professional individual who will try to avoid being detected, but 6-12th grade students can be incredibly lazy and procrastinate. You may take the time to add a tone, style and cadence to your prompt but many students do not. They can be so bad you find the "As an AI assistant..." line in their submitted work. We have about 11% of assignments are blatantly using AI, and after manual review of over 3,000 submitted assignments GPTZero is quite capable and had very few (<20) false positives. Do you want teachers wasting time loading, reviewing and ultimately commenting on clear AI slop? No you do not, they have very little time as is and that time will be better spent helping other students. Of course, you need a process to deal with false positives, the same way we had one for our plagiarism detector. We had to make decisions many years ago about what percentage of false positives is okay, and what the process looks like when it's wrong. Put simply, the end goal isn't to catch everyone, it's to catch the worst offenders such that your staff don't get worn down, and your students get a better education. |
You could ask the student to start wrkting on google docs, and whenever someone gets a false positive, they can prove they wrote it through that.
And Besides 99% of people who use AI to write, dont bother claiming it as a false positive, so giving students the right to contest that claim would not be that much if a problem long term.