The rapid introduction of generative AI has created a wild west of policies at colleges, complicating the use of long-standing editing and writing tools.

Notre Dame first developed its AI policy for students in August 2023, leaving it up to individual professors to decide if students are—or aren’t—allowed to use generative AI to help complete assignments.

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To avoid further confusion about Grammarly—which many students were accustomed to using—Notre Dame updated its policy this August to clarify that because “AI-powered editing tools like Grammarly and WordTune work by using AI to suggest revisions to your writing,” if an instructor “prohibits the use of gen AI on an assignment or in a class, this prohibition includes the use of editing tools, unless explicitly stated otherwise.”