The videos are everywhere, and the offer is always the same. Let AI do your homework, and you will not get caught.

According to a New York Times investigation, TikTok and YouTube are now full of tutorials selling students two kinds of tool. Humanisers rewrite AI-generated text so it no longer reads like a chatbot. Autotypers do something sneakier: they drip the words into a document over hours, faking typos, deletions and edits so a finished essay looks like a real writing session.

Both are built to defeat the software teachers use to catch AI.

The same companies sell the disease and the cure

Here is the uncomfortable part. Some of the firms selling detection tools also sell the tools that beat them.