> However, these types of comparative analyses failed because most of my students were not developed enough as writers to analyze the subtleties of meaning or e

> However, these types of comparative analyses failed because most of my students were not developed enough as writers to analyze the subtleties of meaning or evaluate style. “It makes my writing look fancy,” one PhD student protested when I pointed to weaknesses in AI-revised text. IMO teachers, and academia specifically, are to blame for what AI is doing to students because they’re the ones that have defined good writing as “fancy writing”. The hardest part of learning to be a good writer has been undoing all the years of style over substance engrained in high school and college. If we’re taught to write like robots, is it any surprise we just have robots write for us given the opportunity? And is it any surprise we don’t see the point of learning to write if robots seemingly do it so much better?