OP makes a good argument as to why this would be ineffective: ... even if we could definitively tell whether any given word was produced by ChatGPT, we still

OP makes a good argument as to why this would be ineffective: ... even if we could definitively tell whether any given word was produced by ChatGPT, we still couldn’t prevent cheating. The ideas on the paper can be computer-generated while the prose can be the student’s own. No human or machine can read a paper like this and find the mark of artificial intelligence.