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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem isn't people using ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot, etc. to write the essays from the ground up - it's having these tools to tune and refine the essays.

I suspect the majority of students are going to begin using these tools going forward; it's naive to assume otherwise.

Try taking one of your essays and throwing it into ChatGPT - ask it to clean it up, make it more professional or persuasive or insightful, improve the vocabulary, etc.

Now which one do you want to send to an Ivy?
I know - I'd rather be authentically myself than turn in work that wasn't my own.

Ok...maybe, but do you still feel that way knowing that all of your peers aren't necessarily so virtuous?  Do you still feel that way if it means the difference between your dream school and a safety?

I'm not advocating anyone use these tools, but it is a slippery slope, particularly when you know everyone else is using them.[/quote]

Agree: Per the AP News article posted recently, colleges such as Virginia Tech are using AI to evaluate essays: so why get on a high horse about the virtue of refraining from AI use to assist in writing essays that colleges are using AI to review.

I would caution though, Chat GPT (at least the free version) is a mediocre editor at best. I have used it to edit some professional work and never has it produced an edit I loved verbatim.  Best to ask for a specific fix on a small section (sentence or two) to garner a few workable ideas as a helpful iteration.

When I have given it full sections, often the meaning is slightly shifted.

I can also tell work that is entirely/mostly Chat GPT generated by formatting and em dashes (it has ruined the em dash, which is a shame) and even voice.[/quote]

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