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Steven Kelts, Lecturer, Princeton University: “We are still going to know.”

CNN Anchor: These college professors say students are 1increasingly cutting and pasting 2AI-generated text in their essays, and that is 3cheating. These professors say they're not 4falling for it, and there are often three 5extremely obvious 6giveaways. 

Number one, the essay is 7suspiciously perfect. 

Darren Hick: A ChatGPT-generated essay looks like it was written by a very 8competent 12th grader. 

Christopher Bartel, Professor of Philosophy, Appalachian State University: AI-generated text has no mistakes. It's like robotically 9bland text. Nobody would actually speak that way. 

CNN Anchor: Another giveaway, the essay has no human voice. 

Steven Kelts: The built in voice of a model like ChatGPT is the voice of a 50-year-old 10compliance lawyer. 

Sarah Elaine Eaton, Associate Professor of Education, University of Calgary: It seems to lack 11vibrancy. There's not a lot of 12authenticstudent voice or experience in there. 

Christopher Bartel: An AI-generated text feels like an essay that's written by an intelligent person who has never had a class with me. 

CNN Anchor: And third, AI essays often say false research. 

Darren Hick: Perhaps the biggest thing that a ChatGPT-generated essay can do is shake the instructor's own confidence in what they know about the source material. 

Christopher Bartel: It will just 13make things up. It will 14attribute ideas to people that could never have had those ideas. 

Anthony Aumann, Professor of Philosophy, Northen Michigan University: It'll 15combine perfect grammar with something that's, like, obviously false. 

Penelope Adams Moon, Center for Teaching Learning Director, University of Washington: It can't 16distinguish between fact and 17fiction. It can't distinguish between information and 18disinformation. 

Darren Hick: It will look like it's 19quoting, and it will look like it's 20citing. But if those sources don't look familiar to you, there's a good chance this is written by AI.