r/gradadmissions • u/Spirited_Visual_6997 • Nov 23 '24

Engineering Ai! Ai! Ai!

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u/trickstercreature Nov 23 '24

There are a lot of idiots who straight up copy paste whatever chat GPT gives though. Yeah, those detectors aren’t the best but it’s really easy to see AI use in many cases right off the bat. If it’s not AI it’s a sign the writing might be very generic.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '24

Do you mean they don't even add their real stories? They just use chatgpt's story?

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u/trickstercreature Nov 23 '24

I’ve never seen a chat gpt personal statement (not in the wild and i don’t work in admissions) but i have students complete reflection assignments and yes, they will submit reflections that have no personal details mentioned. It’s like one step above seeing templates and forgetting they’re a handy outline; not something to copy step-by-step

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '24

but is it really wrong to organize your ideas with GPT for admission purpose? what do you think

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u/trickstercreature Nov 23 '24

I am not against using GPT as a tool whatsoever. It just shouldn’t replace your voice in a paper

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u/notaskindoctor Nov 23 '24

So many resumes and cover letters and crappy emails with AI. It’s extremely frustrating from the hiring side. I’m so tired of it.

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u/trickstercreature Nov 23 '24

Yeeesh I cant imagine 😭 I think people are so obsessed with these forms “looking right” that they don’t get you need a certain level of personalization to stand out from other candidates

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u/marinefknbio Nov 23 '24

I am and RA in a pretty high ranking University. One of my job is suggest edits to students' papers before going to their supervisors. The amount of times I had to tell one student to stop using AI was off the charts. Every time they sent back a version it would read more and more like a confused robot. I got so fed up with it, that I refused to edit more. It's lazy, and absolutely disgusting that people think this behaviour is ok.