Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations

FWIW, I'm a consultant for a large University hospital, and Dutch. My PhD thesis, years ago, got the remark: "Should have checked with a native speaker."

So, now I use ChatGPT to check my English. I just write what I want to write than ask it to make my text more "More concise, business-like and not so American" (yeah the thing is by default as ultra enthusiastic as an American waiter). And 9 out of 10 times it says what I want to say but better than I wrote myself, and in much less words and better English.

I don't think it took less time to write my report, but it is much much better than I could have made alone.

AI detector may go off (or it goes on? of is it of? Idk, perhaps I should ask Chat ;)), but it is about as useful as a spell-check detector.

It's a Large Language Model, you should just is like that, it is not a Large Fact Model. But if you're a teacher you should be a good bullshit detector, right?

If I'm every checking some student's report, you may get this feedback: For god's sake, check the language with ChatGPT, but for God's sake check the fact in some other way.

When I was a junior in high school, the Advanced English teacher was also the AP English teacher. All the juniors had to write a term paper, and she had the seniors in the AP class give our papers' first draft a once over and give notes.

Both classes got a lesson, from either end, essentially for free (for the teacher). And it really helped. The next year I got to do the same. Of note was that this was back in the day when computers were relatively rare and typing was a skill that was specially taught, so most of the papers were written longhand for the first draft.

It's long been said that if you really want to learn a subject you should teach it. This sort of give-and-take works well, and it is more or less how the rest of society works. Using AI for this would be quite similar, but I think having another human is better. An AI will never stop you in the hall and say "dude, your paper, I got totally lost in the middle section, what the hell," but sometimes that's quite helpful.