Detectors that get it wrong
Tools that detect AI-written work can wrongly flag a student who wrote their own essay, and miss an AI essay with a few words changed.
WHY
It's only guessing probabilities
These tools only guess probabilities from sentence patterns, so neat, grammatically correct writing can easily look AI-written.
CHANGE IT UP
Change how you set assignments
Instead of hunting for AI work, change how you set assignments: tie them to students' own experiences, things that happened in class, or local stories.
PROCESS
Grade the whole process
Grade the whole process, including the outline, the draft, and a few short oral questions about the student's own essay.
This article is based on the video Are AI-writing detectors reliable? from the Mark học AI channel. Watch the video (in Vietnamese) to see the animations.