The Illusion of Authenticity in Education

We just taught an entire generation that faking it is easier than being real; Here's how;

Nearly 7,000 UK university students got caught cheating with AI in one year; triple the previous

year; Teachers deployed AI detection tools to catch them; The tools have false positive rates;

they flag legitimate work from non-native speakers and neurodivergent students; OpenAI shut down its own

AI detector because it couldn't tell AI text from human writing; When you can't prove you

did the work and detection tools are broken, the implicit lesson becomes this; the

appearance of authenticity matters more than authenticity itself; Stanford found 95 percent of students

believe AI shouldn't write entire papers, yet many use it anyway; There's a gray area between