Essay Mills have not gone away and their marketing has become more aggressive as the potential for Gen AI disrupts their business model. Students receive Instagram messages asking if they are studying at a given University with essay mills obtaining students personal details, including mobile phone numbers. Their peers are also likely giving away this information to them in return for reduced prices or enhanced support. Such student activity might erode trust and collaboration between students precisely when group work is seen as a way forward in assessment.

Assessments designed to prevent fraud or use of Gen AI are varied but often suit smaller cohorts unless assessments seek to minimize workload through programme level assessment of learning outcomes. Some of the assessments proposed to address Gen AI may not scale so a return to invigilated examinations is occurring. Is this a progressive response?

Continued advertising encouraging fraudulent activity suggests that the pace of assessment change is either slow or happening in pockets without strategic change at programme level. Is this a fair observation?

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Professor Michael Draper PFHEA RLAUKAT Director Academic Integrity Swansea University, Co-Chair Welsh Integrity and assessment Network (WIAN), Consultant expert Council of Europe. WIAN is funded by the Welsh Government and serviced by the QAA. As co- chair Michael sits on the QAA Academic Advisory Group and has contributed widely to QAA material on academic integrity.

Michael has also helped to draft the 2022 Council of Europe Recommendation of Countering Education Fraud and has presented widely on this topic for the Council of Europe.

Generative Al and Education Fraud: A Review of the Impact