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What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Zaelaa@lemmy.zip⁩ to ⁨nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/opinion/writing-creativity-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x1A._117.YTT3YfYijvmE

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  • ragepaw@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Interesting thing happened to me this week. I had to write something. i wrote it entirely myself, though I did use AI to format it because I’m lazy, but the actual writing was me.

    I gave it to a friend to proofread and he told me that it looked like it was written by AI. I asked the formatting, and he said, no the text, wording and punctuation. So I put it into AI, told it to rewrite it, and it changed the wording and phrasing for most of it, but the core concepts were still mine.

    I sent it back to him and friend told me that it was better and now looks written by a human.

    I don’t even know what to say to that.

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    • pageflight@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      As well as often producing slop, AI also erodes trust between humans and displaces real creative output.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    its well known AI ones are pretty easy to detect, even copy and pasted from someone who written is very noticble(even if you changed a little)

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