"It's impossible to tell definitively if someone is using AI!"

—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.

I tell them I can help them work through literally anything else that may threaten them passing the course, and that I will do whatever I can to drag them across the finish line if I need to, so long as they don't cheat.

And then I give a short version of the speech again before every assignment.

The media in the U.S., at least in Denver, really tried to paint this as a threat to society. They basically validated Punk to those of us in the midst of a misspent youth

As if petrochemicals aren’t bad enough on their own