This is just straight up not true. Unless you're referring to students who just copy/paste.
A common strategy you will see from cheaters who have even the slightest bit of logical reasoning is to generate an essay, then transcribe it in their own words. All it takes is a little wordsmithing on phrases that sound robotic and you're golden.
Yeah. I won't go ahead and say cheaters are class toppers, since I never saw that happen to me, but a good chunk of them are competent enough, just lazy. They can easily take what the AI generated, weed out anything that's blatantly wrong, reword the essay into less "thesaurus" language more becoming of a high-school student and the teacher likely would never know.
The AI likely won't write the best essays, but I could easily see a kid getting lucky and scoring in the 90s if they decide to put in the work needed to patch up what the AI did.
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u/NecessaryRout 3d ago
Hate to break it to you, but no amount of AI will get past a teacher who cares.
It's not able to write like a person does. Don't kid yourself. Best essays in class? Not by a mile.