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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read an article that basically stated that, while the AI generated writing can be good, it's very impersonal.

Also, in the same article, it stated that some of the stuff coming out of there was nonsense.

Someone (more than one?) have posted AI generated stuff on this forum, and it's pretty clear it was AI generated.  It was too generic.[/quote]

+1 it will strip the voice of the student, which is so important in this kind of essay [/quote]

What's with this voice BS!?  I find the concept of underpaid/overworked app. readers sleuthing for a student's voice laughable.  Setting that aside, if a student writes the common app essay and the college supplemental essays using Chat GPT, wouldn't those have the same voice (or non-voice) which the college evaluators would assume to be the 'voice' of the kid or do they have magical powers that I'm unaware of?  [/quote]

If you’re not well-read or used to good writing, the idea of “voice” might seem strange. It’s real. Many, many people have shared already in this thread and another that they didn’t think AI-written essays would help a student write a PERSONAL essay.

Think about it. AI isn’t going to have examples or the style (voice) of a genuine kid. The writing it generates is good, but isn’t going to show personality. Why would AOs pick good writing that sounds like a text book over good writing that has some personality?[/quote]

You can tell AI to write in a certain style, including the style of particular authors. [b]You can also feed it examples and tell it to mimic that style[/b]. [/quote]

NP. When the "style" is that of a HS student who isn't a good writer, the point about having AI mimic a "style" is useless. Unless the parent feeds AI some author's style and a kid's essays read like an adult novelist wrote them....[/quote]

There are a number of top schools as well as some college consultant bloggers that provide essays of successful student applicants.  You can feed some of those into the AI and have it write in that style. [/quote]

So next year the essays that are highlighted might actually be Chatgpt ones :)[/quote]

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