California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?
Cal Matters
JUNE 26, 2025
It has been more than two years since the release of ChatGPT created widespread dismay over generative AI’s threat to academic integrity. Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Most of these campuses have licensed Turnitin’s plagiarism detector since 2014.
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