In the spring semester this year my teacher friends said they were getting a lot of student work that was unusually well written compared to the student’s other work, but also contain unnatural typos throughout.

The students were using ChatGPT and thought they would trick the teacher by editing some typos in before submission.

The cheating market is moving fast. There are now tools you can use to rephrase LLM generated output until the Pangram score drops low enough.

Versions of this cat and mouse game have been going on for a long time. Before ChatGPT was a household name there was a market for simple paraphrasing tools that spammers would use to send variations of email text to try to delay pattern matching spam filters.