[bee_rider]

I use them occasionally and have never been falsely accused of being an LLM.

The stakes are a bit different for students unfortunately, who who’ll have their writing passed through some snake oil AI detector arbitrarily. This is unfortunate because “learning how not to trigger an AI detector” is a totally useless skill.

Generally, I don’t think we need AI detection. We need dumb bullshit detection. Humans and LLMs can both generate that. If people can use an LLM in a way that doesn’t generate dumb bullshit, I’m happy to read it.

[marcus_holmes]

I think this is a passing phase - academia and the education system will have to adapt to the fact that LLMs exist and will be used, and that therefore the essay is no longer a useful artifact as evidence of learning. This is probably a good thing in the long run.

[perilunar]

Essays are still useful — they just need to be written by hand in exam conditions. No more take-homes.

[TremendousJudge]

yeah but writing an essay over the course of a week and over the course of two hours are entirely different experiences -- and the first one is the one that's usually useful in post-graduate life