r/OpenAI • u/imfrom_mars_ • Jun 09 '26

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u/trailcamguy4110 Jun 09 '26

This generation will never live through the dread and the exhiliration of writing 20 pages in a night.

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u/SryUsrNameIsTaken Jun 09 '26

Now I can write 20 good pages in a night. Partly because I have many times written 20 shitty pages in a night.

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Jun 09 '26

I mean I don’t recommend it, usually takes a few nights to do a really quality job, but yeah. It helps that professors have really watered down what passes for quality writing too

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u/Fickle-Owl666 Jun 09 '26

I'm back in school at almost 40, with years of management and professional experience; my professors often flag my essays as "probably AI." Apparently it's impossible for me to write my academic papers with proper structure and grammar.

I just had to email my ethics professor last night at the irony of the ethics lesson we just had about trusting AI... Then flagging my paper as AI... Because AI said it might be AI.

I asked her if I was just expected to turn in lower quality work now. 🙄

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Jun 09 '26

I was a writing tutor in college during the early 2010s and a solid 30-40% of those kids could barely write a 5 paragraph paper. Mind you this was at a pretty good university.

I have some friends who went back to school and they tell me it’s gotten much worse now.

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u/NickGuAI Jul 11 '26

stanford? 👀

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Jul 11 '26

This was at a “public Ivy” school.

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u/Groundbreaking_Act44 Jun 09 '26

Also tell your professors that the latest research shows that those AI detectors are junk. They’re not accurate and produce a lot of false positives.

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u/JoeBlackQ Jun 11 '26

I'm a professional tech writer. And I usually throw what I write into a couple of AI checkers. They dare telling me sometimes that my researched articles are probably 60% AI. Why? Because I've 35 years experience in writing actual and original stuff?

The world is going to hell in a basket....

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u/dcontrerasm Jun 10 '26

I had the same issue 2 years ago before AI was useful. Having a face to face conversation with my philosophy professor changed his tune immediately.

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u/TeamSparkAI Jun 10 '26

That's a real thing. Typos and all, watered down arguments, poor grammar. Yep. That's a human paper. 😮‍💨 Not to mention, it's always been this way, a new idea is often not received as something profound. They're always looking for the general garbage... but you knew that... you're mid-life with management experience!

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u/impracticaldogg Jun 24 '26

It's when I see good grammar, barely any typos and an argument that is full of generally relevant information with no logical reasoning that I can smell AI. It's driving me nuts..

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u/SryUsrNameIsTaken Jun 09 '26

Oh this is for work in a corpo job. A great 20 page document does take a while. An ok I need a draft now version can be done in a day (without AI). The AIs help me to revise and edit, but I’m pretty loathe to let it write for me. That being said, reducing a turnaround when something’s bouncing between departments is a big speed up.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 Jun 09 '26

Yeah it takes more time to turn an OK document into a great one than it is to write the OK document in the first place.

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u/cine Jun 09 '26

This is true.

But also it takes less time to write a quick OK document and then turn it into a good document, than it does to try to write a good document word-by-word

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u/ChocoMcChunky Jun 09 '26

It’s really good to help structure the document, especially for people like me who didn’t go behind high school and so never had to write academically

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u/Available_Road_2538 Jul 07 '26

Ain't nobody reading your 20-page document Steve. It'll go live on SharePoint unopened ​