THE FUSE

The assignment the college professor gave her students was to write about their experience of the course and how they felt about it. Twelve students from vastly different cultures, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds were enrolled in the anthropology seminar, but what the professor received was a dozen iterations of essentially the same essay. Not only were the topics they covered the same: learning, growth, and concepts related to anthropology and cultural traditions. But at the same time, the essays all shared a language and structure far more sophisticated, organized, and complex compared with the language the students had used throughout the semester. Put simply, their final papers stunk of AI.