Comment by btown

It frustrates me that AI detection for student essays effectively works as a protection racket: if a student wants to write an essay without AI assistance and reliably get credit for doing so, they still need to pay a company like Pangram for an individual account to ensure their own work isn't accidentally flagged (especially if checking multiple drafts a day).

And even this isn't perfect, nor is it guaranteed that enterprise and individual accounts are tuned the same way. So students also need to proactively use audit/keystroke logging systems to protect themselves against accusations, which creates a type of "panopticon" on one's early/ephemeral drafts, including language of frustration (who among us hasn't typed curses into an unsaved draft at some point?), that can massively stifle creative thought. And if an institution provides such a tool, their centralized access simply worsens the "panopticon" characteristics.

There's no easy solution, here, sadly.