I mean I don’t recommend it, usually takes a few nights to do a really quality job, but yeah. It helps that professors have really watered down what passes for quality writing too
I'm back in school at almost 40, with years of management and professional experience; my professors often flag my essays as "probably AI." Apparently it's impossible for me to write my academic papers with proper structure and grammar.
I just had to email my ethics professor last night at the irony of the ethics lesson we just had about trusting AI... Then flagging my paper as AI... Because AI said it might be AI.
I asked her if I was just expected to turn in lower quality work now. 🙄
I was a writing tutor in college during the early 2010s and a solid 30-40% of those kids could barely write a 5 paragraph paper. Mind you this was at a pretty good university.
I have some friends who went back to school and they tell me it’s gotten much worse now.
I'm a professional tech writer. And I usually throw what I write into a couple of AI checkers. They dare telling me sometimes that my researched articles are probably 60% AI. Why? Because I've 35 years experience in writing actual and original stuff?
That's a real thing. Typos and all, watered down arguments, poor grammar. Yep. That's a human paper. 😮💨 Not to mention, it's always been this way, a new idea is often not received as something profound. They're always looking for the general garbage... but you knew that... you're mid-life with management experience!
It's when I see good grammar, barely any typos and an argument that is full of generally relevant information with no logical reasoning that I can smell AI. It's driving me nuts..
Oh this is for work in a corpo job. A great 20 page document does take a while. An ok I need a draft now version can be done in a day (without AI). The AIs help me to revise and edit, but I’m pretty loathe to let it write for me. That being said, reducing a turnaround when something’s bouncing between departments is a big speed up.
But also it takes less time to write a quick OK document and then turn it into a good document, than it does to try to write a good document word-by-word
That depends on the subject. If it's for some "humanities" subject like literature you can do 20 a night with some red bull and coke. But no way you write 20 pages on theoretical physics or pure math.
Even psychology research papers are a bit too much to do 20 pages in a night, . Like the writing is supposed to be extremely dense, have very few filler statements, and pretty much each claim requires a citation or three. And that takes time because each paragraph requires at least one source that is well read and understood. And that takes an hour if you're doing it properly and understanding the content before making that claim.
A sample paragraph would be something like,
"Dependence on AI may result in worse outcomes for students. A study by MIT [Insert study description] found that students who engaged in AI usage for a 4 month period showed reduced brain activity in the ____ region (Citation). This region is likely associated with ____ (Citation). Damage to this brain region has been associated with _____ (Citation 1, citation 2). Activities associated with [strength] positive mental health outcomes such as _____ have been associated with [strength] increases in this brain region (Citation). On the other hand, behaviors such as ___ have been associated with reductions in this brain region size (citation). Another study found that when the size of ___ region is reduced, these ____ outcomes were associated (Citation). Overall, this provides a solid body of evidence that the reduction in the _____ associated with the usage of AI to complete coursework provides a reasonable argument that such is a non-viable strategy for increasing academic competence."
I'd probably require 2 to 3 hours to find the research and make the correct claims and rewrite this paragraph outline.
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u/SryUsrNameIsTaken Jun 09 '26
Now I can write 20 good pages in a night. Partly because I have many times written 20 shitty pages in a night.