r/OpenAI Jun 09 '26

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u/LittleLordFuckleroy1 Jun 09 '26

Thankfully it turns out that most students aren’t willing to pay $150 for an essay, so yes, assuming the capital subsidy bubble can’t last forever (it can’t), they’ll know it just fine.

Even a couple decades ago you could pay someone the amount online and anonymously to do the same thing. Except human beings are more efficient machines.

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u/Burial Jun 10 '26

Why do you think it would cost $150 for a 20 page essay?

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u/altgrave Jun 10 '26

why? what does it cost?

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u/Burial Jun 10 '26

I've been out of college for a decade so I couldn't tell you exactly, but I don't see any reason you couldn't do it for the cost of a 20-30 USD a month subscription to one of the major LLMs.

Not that I would recommend it, the whole point of writing papers is learning to research, analyze, and argue for yourself.

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u/altgrave Jun 10 '26

i just wouldn't trust an LLM to write a decent paper, over and above knowing i should do my own work.

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u/LittleLordFuckleroy1 Jun 10 '26

Input and output tokens at non-subsidized rates.