Educators caught using AI to write official speeches resort to denial, detector firm finds
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-28
Paul Novosad argues that education officials who use AI writing get caught and then pile on lies like "detectors don't work" or "I only used AI for grammar." Detector firm Pangram flagged multiple speeches in an official's "official correspondence" as majority-AI, and the state's controversial new high school science standards as 32% AI. The officials privately think AI writing is fine (like ghostwriting), but admitting it publicly undermines their mission of teaching that writing matters—so they lie, and getting caught compounds the damage.
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