The power of these tools rests in how common certain patterns of text are in both immediate and superstrucral ways. They force us to admit that with 8B people

The power of these tools rests in how common certain patterns of text are in both immediate and superstrucral ways. They force us to admit that with 8B people in the world, many of the questions we have and tasks we pursue have already been approximated countless times. They reveal that much of what we do is not so original. Understanding -- human or machine -- is something different, and enables invention/originality/reflection in a way that recent innovations are still not yet able to acheive on their own. Importantly, though, students and juniors are specifically being assigned challenges that are already known not to be novel or inventive, which is why these tools can so easily do the work for them. But when when they let the tool do so, they sidestep the unique growth opportunity they were given in the first place.