Students use AI to apologize after getting caught using AI to cheat
Students caught using AI to complete their work were later caught using AI to write apologies to their professors.
The New York Times reported this week that professors at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign noticed that apologies shared by students, after they had been caught cheating by using artificial intelligence tools, had nearly identical language.
It turned out that the apologies, too, had been drafted not by the students, but AI.
The Times reported that their “identical, less-than-genuine apologies” were read aloud during a lecture and shared widely on social media.
