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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread has gone quiet. Are parents busy getting their children to generate new essays? [/quote]

This thread makes me sad.  My kid spent weeks on her essay(s), refining and editing.  And now authentic essays will mean nothing.
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Your kid will be a better writer for the effort, which will be useful wherever she ends up. Granted, it’s nothing like a lot of the stuff she’ll be asked to write, but being able to edit your own work is an important skill to have. [/quote]

What your child wrote is hopefully better than what OP got from the bot.[/quote]

What's really scary is that a lot of parents here are so poorly educated that they think those essays are decent essays.

And these are the boneheads using consultants, test prep and hooks to jam their children into the CMU computer science meat grinder...

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Let's cut the crap...these are decent essays and I am sure much better than an essay that you would write when trying to combine two disparate topics into anything resembling a unified essay.

Also, for the record folks, there are plenty of jobs paying extraordinarily high wages where you don't need to know how to even write a complete sentence.  You realize nearly the entire VC, investment banking and P/E world makes multi-billion $$ decisions based on PP presentations where you write strings of bullet points.  Not a complete sentence in sight.  Also, most corporate legal documents are nothing more then templates created previously and then you find and replace for the specific transaction.[/quote]

I just listened to an interview with a member of the screen writers guild and they seemed genuinely concerned that AI was going to replace the writers room. The quality of the writing is going to improve with every iteration, and in a few years it’s going to reach the point where it is both high quality and impossible to distinguish from human writing [/quote]

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