Stephen Downes

This is important: "To say there is a definitive checklist approach to AI detection is unreliable, and at times dangerous." I would also add that our confidence that we can detect AI versus non-AI writing is probably misplaced. Having said that, I think this is at least partially true: "I was able to gain a direct sense of how each student writes in their own, authentic voice - how arguments were organized, evidence was cited and personal styles were manifested." It feels to me that if you read a lot you can feel a sense of narrative arc - or reasoning, story-telling, movement toward an end - that just isn't present in AI writing, not because AI inherently can't, but because of current context-window limitations. Articles I spot as overly-long AI pieces go from one topic to another to another, each related to the other, but none of them leading to any overall point. Again, though, I would hesitate before pronouncing with certainty that anything is AI or not.