It's all a little crazy as we start to understand the new tech. I do feel sorry for teachers who are really under the pump to educate, and being told to be vigilant for dishonesty - which has always been plagiarism, but now takes the form of AI - they're bound to stuff up sometimes. Then they're probably poorly educated themselves on how to handle it. How to teach kids discerning use of AI, for example? When it is it right to use it, and when might it be risking your ability to learn and to prove you can learn with old fashioned and rigid assessments?

Then we have AI producing content which mimics the content itself is creating, and to sound 'perfect' we have to follow this structure too - even though the structure you speak of (we don't call it the seven point story structure - but it's essentially that) can be played around with a little. So we're all churning out sameness along some made up perfection guidelines, which AI is copying, and we're copying AI, who is copying itself back. Sigh. Are we on drugs?

I was reading about a guy whose article was booted from a magazine as they said it was AI generated - he was a respected journalist and hadn't used AI at all. Yep, we've dug this hole.

Don't be too hard on the teachers using AI - they're so under the pump that if there's a shortcut, they'll use it. I don't plan lessons anymore but I did have a term's cover a few months back and honestly, getting an AI to write sample paragraphs to my guidelines, and giving them a quick edit for my purposes, saved me so much time it wasn't funny. Even just a quick few ideas for lesson plans. Honestly, if I'd been given more planning time, and wasn't teaching five classes, I wouldn't have needed it. We seem to be pushed into this hyper productivity that demands we do the work of three people. Rather than rioting, we're looking for short cuts to save our sanity.

Saying that, the school obviously needs a better approach. Certainly moderating it with more than one staff member, having an AI consultant/expert on it, and maybe a different way to assess might help? Same with the CV's - I mean, they just have to look snazzy to get in the door so you get the interview, right? That's where the real assessment begins - not on paper. And if the employer is dumb enough to assess CV's on the basis of font, well...