
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.”
- Speaker
- Larry McNeil
- Timestamp
- 46:48 – 47:26
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- 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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