ok but why do people keep asking ai to write their college essays

[scruffy_pockets]

like yeah i get it, its tempting and all, but are we really at the point where we trust a robot to sound like us? i tried feeding one of my old essays into a tool once just to see what itd do and it came out so bland and generic i wanted to cry like no offense to ai but it doesnt have my deeply embarrassing obsession with 80s synthwave or that one time i accidentally dyed my hair green for a week. its not gonna capture the weird little details that make an essay feel human. also every time i see someone bragging about using ai for their homework i just think “damn, you’re really gonna let a machine take credit for your grade?” idk man, maybe im old-fashioned but i kinda miss the days when cheating involved at least a little effort at least back then you had to copy from a book or something. ngl now its just “hey robot, do my work” and its so lazy it hurts anyway, thats my rant. ai is cool and all but maybe we should keep it out of the stuff thats supposed to be personal. unless youre trying to sound like a sentient toaster, then by all means go for it.