University professors should agree you are asking the wrong question. Use of ChatGPT and the like is ubiquitous, and professors know its capabilities. Additionally, there is really no way for students to prove their work is 100% original unless it is done completely and entirely in view of university staff [edit: there is no "commercially viable" way. Professors will not watch hours-long screenshots of one student completing an assignment, at least not in traditional higher education.]. In fact, university staff might develop a policy in which students who go far out of their way to request authentication of their work must develop a fool-proof methodology which does so.

In any sense, version control might help students assess their writing and argument-creation process, but it does not offer hope of originality verification, like some other software try.

University professors should agree you are asking the wrong question. Use of ChatGPT and the like is ubiquitous, and professors know its capabilities. Additionally, there is really no way for students to prove their work is 100% original unless it is done completely and entirely in view of university staff [edit: there is no "commercially viable" way. Professors will not watch hours-long screenshots of one student completing an assignment, at least not in traditional higher education; even this omits the possibility of cell phone use]. In fact, university staff might develop a policy in which students who go far out of their way to request authentication of their work must develop a fool-proof methodology which does so.

In any sense, version control might help students assess their writing and argument-creation process, but it does not offer hope of originality verification, like some other software try.