Students' stated beliefs about AI use diverge from their actual practice, including hidden or unrecognized policy-violating use¶
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q2 i? Some participants who believed their AI use was acceptable still hid it or managed detection risk, and chat-log comparison revealed two students had copy-pasted AI text while claiming they had not. → Kim 2026
Evidence¶
Kim 2026¶
Kim, Jiyoon; Toyama, Kentaro; Kim, Sangmi; Carroll, John. (2026). "It's OK Because...": The Wild West of Student Rationalization of AI Use in Academic Writing. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29090 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.29090
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Belief-versus-behavior analysis comparing interviews with AI chat logs and final submissions. Students who claimed that avoiding copy-paste made AI use acceptable were shown by chat-log comparison to have copied and pasted AI text, and "two students were not aware that this was what they had done in practice". Other participants who deemed their use acceptable still ran drafts through AI detectors before submission.
"However, when their final essays were compared with their AI chat logs, it appeared that they had copied and pasted AI-generated text; two students were not aware that this was what they had done in practice."
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Students' stated beliefs about AI use diverge from their actual practice, including hidden or unrecognized policy-violating use |
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Students' stated beliefs about AI use diverge from their actual practice, including hidden or unrecognized policy-violating use |
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