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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure many of you use ChatGPT or the like in your daily lives and see its power to write just about anything.

Is it time for schools to 100% kill all essays?  Honestly, what's the point?[/quote]

[b]I can smell gpt essays a mile away.  Heck, I can smell gpt posts on DCUM a mile away. [/b] 
College essays need to be authentic.  There is nothing authentic in the gpt essays.[/quote]

Anyone can spot it if the essay is straight from gpt. If you generate an essay, then write it in your own words, [b]the story it is conveying[/b], no one can tell.

Once you have an idea and detail flushed out neatly, writing in your own words is a simple task. You stick to your style of writing. The trick is to read one paragraph one time and rewrite it without looking again. I am surprised at how many tricks HS students are up to these days![/quote]

I am not sure what you are saying.  Are you saying gpt generates the idea of a story for you?  So nothing is real?  Or are you saying you input your idea into gpt for it to write it out then you rewrite it in your own style?  If former it's fabricating.  If latter, how does it help you and in what exact ways gpt contributes to your essay?  [/quote]

Play around with it.

Ask for it to give you an essay about your idea (write a detailed one paragraph summary highlighting a few experiences. The detail doesn’t need to be there but the more detail you have the better. It would be best if you could give it some of your previous writing as well so we can write in the same style that you write in. Spend some time on it. You’d be surprised).

By the way kids are using AI-powered college essay tools. There are hundreds of them.[/quote]

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