Has anyone else just given up trying to police AI cheating?

For reference - I teach "college level" writing intensive classes to High School seniors. It's so bad over here that I've honestly given up trying to police student cheating via AI. I've found that giving students 0's doesn't actually cause them to refrain from cheating, but rather, they just learn how to cheat "better". If I actually wrote up students via our academic code of conduct and notified schools these seniors got accepted to of their academic dishonesty, I'm positive all hell would break out (between admin, parents, etc - you know the drill). Interesting article here -> https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/technology/schoolwork-chatbot-cheating-pew.html "...The s*rvey did not ask students whether they had used chatbots to write essays or generate other assignments, the kind of cheating problems that teachers across the United States have warned about. But nearly 60 percent of teenagers told Pew that students at their school used chatbots to cheat 'very often' or 'somewhat often.' The results, the report said, indicate that teenagers think 'cheating with A.I. has become a regular feature of student life.'..." I feel like until our curriculum office actually gives us meaningful guidance around this issue, it's completely above my pay grade and not worth the headache. I will note, however, that I do share with students current research around issues like "cognitive offloading", but what teenagers actually care about that? It's so frustrating that something so immediately, irrevocably perilous is here, happening in our classrooms, and we don't have the tools to combat it. submitted by /u/4fingerdfisherman [link] [comments]