Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/ai-apps-students-cheat.html

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These kinds of tutorials are now pervasive on TikTok and YouTube. They show students how to use tools known as humanizers and autotypers, which make it easier than ever to cheat. The videos — sometimes labeled ads, sometimes not — target college and high school students.

Humanizers rewrite A.I.-produced text to make it sound less robotic, formulaic and trite.

Autotypers slowly drip words and sentences into documents, making it appear as if papers were typed at a human pace when in fact, they were produced by A.I. They even fabricate typos, deletions and revisions.

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Duey.ai, an app that describes itself as the “#1 autotyper for Google docs,” tells customers that when they’re too tired or busy to focus, or out with friends, “The document looks like you wrote it.”

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The autotypers are to let students cheat even when teachers are checking Google Docs history to see when a paper was supposedly typed, edited, etc.

The article has a lot about how Grammarly is now helping students cheat, too, since it lets students generate text, paraphrase anything they copy in, humanize text, and scan and replace writing that could set off AI detectors.

And they quote Jenny Maxwell - head of education at Superhuman, which owns Grammarly - saying this is "a huge pedagogical upheaval in education" and it's a "burn it down moment." They also say Maxwell suggested that not letting students use AI would be educational malpractice. Maxwell wants teachers to accept that most writing in the future will be done using AI.

This is all of course incredibly harmful to students. A parody of education.