The AI Detection Trap Is Teaching Students to Write Badly

A university writing center director is now routinely advising students to introduce errors into their own work ^[13]. That sentence should require no elaboration to land, but it does require a name: this is not a worst-case scenario or an edge case — it is the practical guidance being dispensed at a working university writing center, reported by a faculty member who called it exactly what it is. 'We are mad' is not a rhetorical flourish. It is the affect of someone confronting an institutional system that has turned…