You missed SO much propoganda by not paying attention.

What do you think computer science class was for?

I'm an educator, and we have the revision history extenstion in Google doc that allows us to see the document as it was written.

If large blocks of text suddenly appear, it indicates plagiarism.

Knowing your students and their lexicon, it's unnecessary for most of us to use it though.

Most of the students that try to sneak AI struggle with writing to begin with, which makes it remarkably obvious when they try to pass off something that is not theirs.

innocent until proven guilty, I'd say, it's on them to prove you did use AI

My kid's school uses Google Classroom and some teachers will check the revision history in Docs.

using version control for essays and stuff sounds like good practice for software development and probably some other fields too

I was looking through one of my old fanfics from 2010 and

I liked a good em dash.

47 in one chapter of a different fic is my record.

Me after submitting my college essay with 10 min left in 1989 after running around the library for a week, writing the essay by hand and then typing it out on a typewriter.

There's a reason places prefer to hire older researchers.

I taught myself how to fix pinball machines with the help of the Internet. Not that it's amazing, but proof that someone that's interested enough can occasionally succeed on some level given enough dedication and determination ✨

Sure, but that's a problem of discipline not ability.

In English class (am not from English speaking country) and exams, I always pick the fiction essay category. The school here (back 20 years ago, dunno how they do it now) has formatted essays (like writing a (in)formal letter, or a report) choice for easy marks. I don't like writing those. For what it's worth, I got on average A's on my English exams. There's a minimum word count to reach for free essays, and I used to get comments from my teacher to cut it short and not go past double the word count lol. Sadly I don't remember what that word count was. I am very thankful for my teacher for encouraging my class to read and practice writing English so much. I even have a pocket thesaurus/dictionary I carry everywhere back then alongside whatever novel I was reading that time.

Point is, idk what my point is lol. Just sharing.

Edit: so okay maybe a point can be said about interest of the topic in writing (essays). I did bad on any other topic essays (geography, history, not science though I scored those essays).

Ooh fun fact about this:

Gpt3 and chatgpt came out a good 3 years after the 2020 pandemic, but LLMs were around in 2019 with even a niche mobile DnD style game, AI dungeon, using gpt2 as their core gimmick.

I like to mention this because even before I started boycotting AI, I was thinking "AI dungeon was better at this than chatgpt." I learned it was using gpt2 in the back later.

All that "chatgpt exponentially getting better" is marketing. It's getting better in one thing while worse in the other, at most.

I also like to mention this because AI dungeon went broke from all the server costs. They weren't even training, just hosting, and it was still too unprofitable.

The original point is that teenagers in 2010s didn't have access to AI so they had to actually write the essays and suffer (thus the image) While teenagers nowadays have AI and everything is great :D

Schools are great at killing interest in the intellectual pursuits.

Writing is such a weird thing. Trying to start writing is like trying to start a carburetor car with broken choke in -40°C, but once you get it going you rarely end with just 1 or 2 pages of stuff.

They'd need to try to understand what a trip writing is. But, yeah, they aren't even trying now.

Teenagers and some adults as well.

This comment has inspired me to write a book finally. For years I've thought I don't do enough. I've been forum RPing for decades now, get over myself jeez.

That's the difference between those of us who write for the love of the craft, who want to create something we're proud of, and those who just want to make a quick buck.

Unless you have a cool teacher