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I'll just point out that college students papers are exactly the sort of thing these AI chat things also do. Take a body of preexisting material and distill it into an essay. Really seems to me this is moving the bar as to what counts as cheating rather dramatically.

Memory that pops up is Barton Fink being told to write a script for a wrestling film.

Also sort of topical in high school had a quiz on a short story that I had not read. But I had read some of the authors other short stories. So I started out with 'While I failed to read 'story title'. Based on the author and the title I think the story is about bla bla. And the teacher took off 2 pts for not reading the story first.




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