When AI starts writing your essays

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The resulting paper begins: “Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. The Green Light Situated at the end of Daisy’s East Egg dock and barely visible from Gatsby’s West Egg lawn, the green light represents Gatsby’s hopes and dreams for the future.”

That’s not A+ work by any means, but it might pass. And the service boasts that its results are “plagiarism free,” meaning they won’t be flagged by plagiarism-detection services. Oh, and if you don’t like it, just click “re-generate” and get a new bot-written essay.

Source: Are Algorithmically-Generated Term Papers the Next Big Challenge to Academic Integrity?
Via: Cheat Bots Are Coming – Assorted Stuff

Right now, the results are not very good, but they will get better and better.

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