My whole school career I got C’s and B’s from my professors for writing.
They didn’t like my writing because it wasn’t in an academic voice enough.
They didn’t like my writing because I wasn’t parroting back exactly what they just wrote on their slides.
They didn’t like my writing because it wasn’t completely predictable.
Boy, did I feel like I was stupid.
Well, I’ve been a writer for a long time now.
Of all different genres and styles of writing.
People say they even like my writing.
And I think I like it too, or I would have quit a long time ago.
Now those same professors are fighting students cheating on writing essays with AI: a technological tsunami that has arrived and is here to stay.
It’s also a technology that can do exactly that they’re looking for.
It writes in an academic voice.
It parrots back exactly what the slides already say.
And it’s completely and utterly predictable.
Students now are doing exactly what my professors always wanted me to do with my writing.
It makes me wonder.
Who’s schooling who?
Pellets from the Universe 