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Can the fear of students using generative AI and the rise of questionable AI ‘checkers’ create a culture devoid of creativity?

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Bill SB 942 would require AI companies to offer free AI detection tool, despite the fact that such tools are notoriously unreliable and prone to nonsense.

Bill just passed in the California Assembly and is now on Governor Newsom ’s desk to potentially sign.

Grammarly Pro recently introduced an AI checker tool that tries to determine if the submitted text was written by AI .

There is no indication that the teacher is relying on, or even using, the AI checker.

The essay did use the word “delve,” which has now become something of a punchline as showing up in every AI -generated work.

The main theory is that some of the training and data used in AI systems was done in Nigeria and Kenya , where the word "delve" is more common.

The fear of AI writing might actually make people write less with the creativity of humans, and more to simply avoid being called out as a machine.

But I fear that with there being such a fear about “AI writing,” the end result might actually be less creative.