it’s just showing your work with more fancy descriptions.

if you have a beautiful term paper that emerged from the ether, it’s likely synthetic.

if you have notes and outlines and all the trappings of having written a term paper, then at the very least you understand all the components and the process, even if you managed to use a language model for every step.

that’s the point, the box is open. but it can be used rather than abused. things change. how we learn is changing.