I’m an academic librarian. A few terms ago, I worked with a student for about four or five weeks, on and off, on her term paper. She’s bilingual, possibly ESL, but I suspect that’s not the case. Anyway, I was mostly reading the rough drafts for structure, flow, comprehension, and helping her with her citations. The instructor flagged it as AI generated. I stepped in to say that she’d been working with me for a month or so, but exactly what happened in the article, “she’d been flagged before for AI generated work.”
I suppose it’s possible that a student would spend a few minutes generating an AI text, then spend hours every day playing on the internet while looking like they’re writing, and involving the school librarian in the pretense of writing a paper. But yikes, that’s a huge, paranoid assumption. Even when she was done, it still read like a student paper.
