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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ha, just a few more model upgrades and kids are going to have to start writing poor essays on purpose to stand out from the sea of well crafted chatGPT essays. [/quote]

Your kid needs to know how to communicate in English.  Help them learn how to do this so that they have this skill to help them in their lives.  What do you suggest they do when they sit down to take a written exam if they don't know how to  organize and present ideas and communicate in English sentences?[/quote]

Are you talking to me? I that was /sarcasm. I don't love the fact that people aren't learning how to write for themselves now. My child attends a writing intensive private school where the teachers go out of their way to discourage use of AI. My child is obsessively honest, and writes her own essay and doesn't even use ChatGPT to brainstorm or check for grammar because of the school's strict anti-AI policy, but I know for a fact that at a few kids have used ChatGPT because they are caught and I'm guessing that sometimes they are not caught. The only real way to prevent AI use is in-class proctored exams with surprise prompts.

There is no way colleges can proctor admissions essays for 60,000+ applicants, so at this point, even though I value writing skills, I no longer see the point of weighting essays highly in the admissions process, if at all. The models are good, especially if you know how to write prompts, and they are only getting better. Paid essay "editors" are also good. [/quote]

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