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I'm just gonna repost my comment to the original post on the 404media community:
Here's a funny story: I once got a D on an essay for my History of Physics class because it was so good that the TA was certain I had plagiarized it. The only reason I didn't end up in front of the ethics board was because she couldn't find any evidence of me doing so... because I hadn't. How many students are in the same situation due to overzealous teachers who have a bone to pick with AI?
Notice how most of the proposed "solutions" focus on bans, and ways to catch and punish students with almost none on improving archaic teaching techniques. Oral presentations, debates, real-world projects, essays on local subjects, using class to discuss subjects students previously studied instead of pontificating for 2 hours, doing away with homework, actually engaging students so they don't feel like cheating... there's loads of ways to teach without AI being a hindrance but it requires teachers to actually adapt instead of being stubborn, lazy twats with an inferiority complex.
I would have students do their first few assignments by handwriting while in class as a way to gauge how their voice is and then let them use tech after.
I think that’s a decent way to weed out people using AI or not for their own thoughts on subjects.
That's nice, but how do you remember a style of writting of 200 students? I see it working when one has 20 students to worry about, but that isn't a common teacher experience.
This is a fair point. It sucks, but one could keep the written things for a while to check against. It’s a lot of work and not definitely not ideal, but it is a solution.