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Larry McNeil

46:48 - 47:26

"Write your own material, you know, because in spite of, you know, students or potential students thinking, you know, that they're disguising, you know, their submissions as being authored by them. It's very, very easily recognizable as being written by AI."

“Write your own material, you know, because in spite of, you know, students or potential students thinking, you know, that they're disguising, you know, their submissions as being authored by them. It's very, very easily recognizable as being written by AI.”
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Larry McNeil
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Alaska News
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July 21, 2026

From the transcript

And what will stand out are the essays written by a real person. The canned AI submissions will often become stale and boring, especially when the stack of submissions are obviously nearly all written by AI. Don't do it. Write your own material, you know, because in spite of, you know, students or potential students thinking, you know, that they're disguising, you know, their submissions as being authored by them. It's very, very easily recognizable as being written by AI.

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