Rethinking the Plagiarism Conversation in Light of ChatGPT

Recently, a young person was accused of using ChatGPT to complete a high-school assignment. She had not. Once the teacher suspected that the straight-A student’s extremely well-written English assignment must have been computer-generated, things moved quickly. She ran the assignment through an AI plagiarism detector, which “concluded” it was AI-generated; a letter went out to the student from the school accusing her of plagiarism, and further actions were being considered. The student, who suffers from