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Andrea Kaston Tange's avatar

Hear hear! Also, from the faculty perspective, it irks me no end that all this AI whatnottery forces me to spend far more than an iota of an atom of a second second-guessing the lovely prose of students whom I generally presume are honest and well-intentioned, simply because occasionally one of their peers will turn in something in a style so dissimilar from earlier work that the reason seems obvious. And then nagging doubts creep in. Every new tool for plagiarism and cheating creates new problems, but this one is particularly insidious because it's not strictly plagiarism and thus much harder to prove. And also because I WANT my students to be beautiful writers. And I WANT them to be striving for that. And I WANT to believe in them. And I hate that this "tool" is causing them to doubt their own capacity to learn so much that they stifle their own process.

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Kyle Lukoff's avatar

I asked my editor to change something from dash to a parentheses to make it feel more intimate and am now feeling smugly Dreyerian about it.

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