“It feels like you get punished for writing too well.”
Chinese universities now require theses to pass AI detection, and students who wrote their papers by hand are getting flagged as cheaters. So they turn to paid services that deliberately dumb down their prose to fool the detectors. The companies selling the detection tools also sell the workaround tools. The whole thing is a self-licking ice cream cone that degrades the quality of academic writing while teaching students that the real skill is gaming broken systems.