Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI
by unpredict on 1/28/2026, 6:09:07 PM
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/college-students-ai-cheating-detectors-humanizers-rcna253878
Comments
by: threemux
In person, proctored blue book exams are back! Sharpen those pencils kids.<p>I've been wondering lately if one of the good things to come out of heavy LLM use will be a return to mostly in-person interactions once nothing that happens online is trustworthy anymore.
1/31/2026, 7:47:51 PM
by: zkmon
Teachers are also heavy users of AI. Entire academic business staff is using AI.<p>The goals of academic assessment need to change. What are they assessing and why? Knowledge retention skills? Knowledge correlations or knowledge expression skills? None of these going to be useful or required from humans. Just like the school kids are now allowed to use calculators in the exam halls.<p>The academic industry need to redefine their purpose. Identify the human abilities that are needed for the future that is filled with AI and devices. Teach that and assess that.
1/31/2026, 7:36:36 PM
by: HeavyStorm
This ship has sailed.<p>It's how it was with the internet. I grew up in the 90s, and teacher didn't know how to deal with the fact we no longer had to go through multiple books in the library to get the information they needed. We barely needed to write it.<p>Now nobody expects students to <i>not</i> use the internet. Same here: teachers must accept that AI can and will write papers and answer questions / do homework. How you test student must be reinvented.
1/31/2026, 7:19:46 PM
by: OsamaJaber
AI detectors punishing non native English speakers for writing too cleanly is the part nobody talks about enough -_-
1/31/2026, 7:07:57 PM
by: ashleyn
I'm guessing this "humanizer" actually does two things:<p>* grep to remove em dashes and emojis<p>* re-run through another llm with a prompt to remove excessive sycophantry and invalid url citations
1/31/2026, 6:44:27 PM
by: postepowanieadm
The Washing-Machine Tragedy was a prophecy.
1/31/2026, 6:53:24 PM
by: falloutx
At some point, writing 2 sentences by hand will become more acceptable than this.
1/31/2026, 6:56:31 PM
by: mc32
I get that students are using the LLM crutch -and who wouldn’t?<p>What I don’t get is why wouldn’t they act like an editor and add their own voice to the writing. The heavy lifting was done now you just have to polish it by hand. Is that too hard to do?
1/31/2026, 7:35:13 PM
by: yarrowy
just move to 2 hour in class writing blocks.
1/31/2026, 7:00:42 PM
by: tgrowazay
Everyone knows about emdashes, but there are so much more!<p>Here is a wiki article with all common tell-tales of AI writing: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing</a>
1/31/2026, 7:01:17 PM
by: TZubiri
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1/31/2026, 7:12:25 PM