Nondetection

As we have noted in the past, efforts to detect cheating via artificial intelligence programs such as chatGPT often produce false positives, i.e., they indicate a document was written by AI when it wasn't. 

UCLA has discouraged use of such programs precisely because of the false positive danger, which  could result in a student being incorrectly charged with cheating.

Now, OpenAI has admitted that its detection program is useless. The notice below comes from its website:

For more information (but no solution), check out:

https://decrypt.co/149826/openai-quietly-shutters-its-ai-detection-tool.

There are clues that cheating might be occurring. Perfect grammar is one, although a smart student could stick in a few errors. Another clue is references that turn out to be invalid or information that you know to be incorrect - since the programs may invent stuff, a phenomenon now termed "hallucinations."