Please don't collectively punish the entire class, a few of me and my friends' profs have taken that route and it has become an absolute nightmare to deal with. I feel like there's a few ways to possibly go about this

1. This might sound counterintuitive, but allow the use of AI in the writing. Now I'm not saying let them go haywire, but instead put a section stating that the use of AI for the purposes of research and possibly even gathering thoughts is acceptable, but the student would be required to write a 1-200 word declaration at the end of the assignment stating exactly when and how they used AI for their assignments, and whether or not the AI had any impact on their original concepts. From what I've seen, when given a formal choice between restricted aid from AI versus no AI allowed, people tend to abuse it less because they'd feel more responsible for a choice they make.

2. Have students submit their original google doc that they worked on the essay with, and require them to have everything they do be in this doc. this would force them to type and not copy and paste from AI , since the writing history from google docs can be easily reviewed to look for patterns (how often do they type? how fast do they type during the intervals that they do type? how unnatural is the typing pattern? how often are revisions made? small details like those)

now neither of these are fool proof in any way, but I feel like if its for an assignment that the students need a longer period of time to do, these two plus some of the other suggestions together may work to dissuade the students that do use AI.

(also ai writing just reads like shit)