1. Professors are trying to lean into AI…by trying to trick students
Everything we’ve talked about as an AI company has begun to come true. Universities are now thinking about “leaning in” to the AI revolution. Unfortunately, this means students need to be more strategic about how they use AI humanization technologies like AI Detector Pro. Here are the top 5 ways universities are trying to lean into the AI revolution and what you can do to continue to maximize the potential of AI and a powerful AI humanizer like AI Detector Pro.
Professors believe they will AI-proof their classrooms by pre-generating ChatGPT essays for the questions they plan to ask on midterms or finals. The best way to lean into this yourself is to prompt ChatGPT to generate a response to the essay question as soon as it’s released so you can see what it looks like and what your professor will be expecting to see. After that, you can use the editor functions inside of AI Detector Pro to make the essay as different as possible.
Remember that there is no way to “humanize” this essay because the professor will have already read every word. Keep reading for additional ways you can counter this trend of professors trying to “lean into” the AI revolution.
2. Get ahead by looking up the professor’s older tests…whenever possible
Sometimes, professors reuse their old tests, which potentially includes reusing old essay questions. These are usually filed in the library, or wherever they store older material. Sometimes, this location is listed on the syllabus. In the event that your professor is reusing older materials without sharing them publicly, you should show up to class and publicly ask them to release a few of them so you can have a study guide. Then, pre-generate ChatGPT essays to those questions yourself. While they won’t be exactly like the final exam, they will be close enough, and you can spend the rest of the class figuring out how to edit them for success quickly.
3. Grill your professor on what they hate about AI writing to get ideas for better prompts
Part of the “lean in” strategy behind having professors pre-generate the answers to the essay questions is for them to recognize the content, but also figure out why it doesn’t meet their standards. So, the most logical thing you can do is to start figuring out what they hate about AI writing. When they release the question, you’ll be able to generate an essay with ChatGPT, but without knowing their pet peeves, you won’t be able to engineer the prompt well enough to avoid your professor.
Here are some questions you can ask:
- What do you think of content produced by AI?
- What do you think the weak spots are? What do you think of as an AI giveaway?
- How do you think a good student can differentiate their writing from AI?
4. Use weekly quizzes/regular assignments as a guide – your professor’s exam questions will probably be pretty close
The reality is that if your professor is using old tests but keeping them under lock and key, your best bet is to figure out what the professor thinks about ChatGPT answers, improve your prompt engineering, and learn how to edit the rewrites we provide in our AI humanizer. Also, keep generating ChatGPT answers throughout the course. For example, if you are given a quiz during the course, ask the professor if you can have a copy of those questions to keep. There should be no problem, but make sure to ask. Then, generate answers using ChatGPT. After the professor releases the grades, ask them what distinguished an A answer from a lesser grade. Chances are that the professor will give you an outline for a pretty decent prompt.
5. Go to class every day or have a friend who does
Another technique professors plant to use to AI-proof (that’s not a leaning-in technique; we are just reporting on the situation) is to base essay questions on what happened in class on a certain date. This way, it’s more challenging to generate an essay. The only way to deal with this is to attend the class. Ask your professor if you can use AI transcription technology to make your life easier.
Bonus: Top mistakes that professors look for!
Overusing headings between paragraphs – professors don’t think students know how to do that
Copy and pasting without changing formatting – when you paste something directly, the coloring will be weird
Not tracking down sources to see if they’re real
Document time stamps don’t add up – if the time on your essay from start to finish only takes 10 minutes, they think you are using AI. That’s why we’re telling you to start working on your essays as quickly as possible. It’s much more believable if you’re slow rolling from the start.
Vague wording – say stuff for real! We have some previous blogs on how ChatGPT will drop the ball on stuff here.
Not checking the answer in ChatGPT first is apparently the number one lean in strategy that will be used at this point.
In 2026 some of your success depends on you to lean in and ask questions
Here’s the thing: AI Detector Pro will rewrite the content you generate from ChatGPT. What we can’t do is change the way your professor thinks or their preferred point-of-view. Or even running the answer in ChatGPT first and then using AI Detector Pro to rewrite it.
Only you can do that, by asking questions. And finding the answer that ChatGPT would answer first.