Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

My daughter was accused of turning in an essay written by AI because the school software at her online school said so. Her mom watched her write the essay. I thought it was common knowledge that it was impossible to tell whether text was generated by AI. Evidently, the software vendors are either ignorant or are lying, and school administrators are believing them.

The education system in the US is broadly staffed by the dumbest people from every walk of life.

If they could make it elsewhere, they would.

I don’t expect this to be a popular take here, and most replies will be NAXALT fallacies, but in aggregate it’s the truth. Sorry, your retired CEO physics teacher who you loved was not a representative sample.

In Germany, you have to do the equivalent of a master's degree (and then a bunch) to teach in normal public schools