What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.'s Effects on Creativity

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4. It isn't cheating to edit something you wrote using a word processor. Btw, iMacs weren't introduced till 1998.

My first experience with word processing was four decades, using WordStar on an Osborne.

You'd be unwise to use AI for research now, since you'd have to check its results so carefully you wouldn't save much time. There was a big story last week about a well known author who'd been foolish enough to trust AI for research:

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143667143

Even if you correct all the mistakes in research done by AI, wiping out much of the time supposedly saved, you'll have allowed a chatbot to narrow down what you find, and missed out on new and interesting information you might have run across.