Generative AI, AI Detectors, and Academic Misconduct: The Current State of the Law

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Faculty are continuing to face challenges in managing student AI use and ensuring academic integrity on exams and assignments. In many cases, faculty use text comparison and AI detector tools to flag AI-generated content and restrict its use in the classroom. Given the unreliability of such detectors, however, there is a growing body of lawsuits challenging academic dishonesty charges and sanctions, on different grounds, based on a student’s use of generative AI on essays, tests, and other coursework (when prohibited).

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