Institutions are disabling AI detectors because cheating is too widespread to manage
hoofnagle · x · 2026-07-26
The post argues that institutions are disabling AI detectors because they know academic dishonesty is widespread, do not want to admit how large the problem is, and cannot cope with the volume.
It frames the move less as confidence in detector quality and more as a practical failure of enforcement: the tools are seen as unusable at institutional scale when cheating is already common.
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