A (possibly) slightly different consideration of AI and student writing.
It's time for end of the year finals and research papers I find myself using AI writing detectors every day. Some of these sites have deeper detections that look for AI writing patterns. A thought hit me that I hadn't had before. It's no longer going to be about whether AI directly wrote something for a student. We are going to soon find ourselves realizing how much AI writing is effecting how students write even when they don't use the crutch of AI.
Whether it's reading AI responses or rewriting the content it creates, students are spending more and more time getting their information and help from one source, AI. At this point, almost all AI sounds incredibly similar in tone and writing style. As we go on, less and less students will be finding what their own voice is in their writings because they will either have been so directly influenced by the largest writing influence in their academic lives but also will not be exposed to nearly as many different styles of writing that happens when scouring multiple different sources. The thought of living in a world where young people are losing more and more of the journey towards finding themselves as individuals is truly depressing.