Why plagiarize the stupid old fashioned way that gets you easily caught? Pretty sure some students are now using some sort of AI software to write for them. I get nearly perfectly written essays from students that didn’t even come close to following the directions. Still get to take massive points off for that… quite satisfying.
However, the essays come up 100% clean for plagiarism, so I really can’t bust them for it, but I know something is going on.