How to Detect AI Writing

It’s a tale as old as teaching: A student completes their assignment using someone else’s work. But in 2025, cheating has evolved, and anyone could be using an artificial intelligence tool to write a paper. 

Away with those shady essay-writing services where you have to plonk down real cash for an unscrupulous person to write 1,200 words on the fall of the Roman Empire. An AI writing tool can do that for free in 30 seconds flat.

As a professor of strategic communications, I encounter…