How AI detectors are poisoning the trust between students and teachers

"So I sat in front of the headmaster with my parents and had to explain to him step by step how I had written the homework that lay between us: This is how long it took me to do the research, this is how I built my outline…" Lucian (all students' names have been changed by the editors) is a secondary school student in a première class at an international lycée and is accused by a teacher of using a chatbot for his homework. He denies this. But he can prove his innocence just as little as his teacher can prove his guilt.

In the end, it is nothing more than the headmaster's personal judgement that acquits Lucian: "After the conversation, the teacher had to give me a good mark, but she wasn't happy about it. As soon as a student improves by a few points, it's immediately said: 'That was ChatGPT.' That's happened to me and a few friends a few times now."