Teens Admit Using ChatGPT for Schoolwork

A shocking new study reveals that 87% of high school students now use AI tools like ChatGPT to complete assignments, with many admitting they "barely read" the generated content before submitting. The survey of 5,000 students nationwide found that 63% use AI for essays, 45% for math homework, and 22% have even had chatbots take entire online quizzes for them. "It writes better than I do and never sleeps," confessed one honors student, who demonstrated how they feed assignment prompts into ChatGPT while playing video games. Educators report catching students submitting AI work through telltale phrases like "as an AI language model" left in documents, while others spot fakes when papers cite nonexistent sources like "Harvard Studies Volume 12, Page 45." School districts are scrambling to respond - some installing AI detectors that flag 30% of submissions as machine-written, while others embrace the trend by assigning "human-only" handwritten essays monitored by surveillance software. The most brazen case involved a student who allegedly used AI to generate a 15-page term paper... about the dangers of AI in education. Psychologists warn this represents a "crisis in critical thinking," though several teens countered that if teachers can't tell the difference, "maybe the assignments weren't that valuable to begin with."