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- Prewrite essay with ChatGPT

- Spend 15 minutes writing an essay structure in Google Docs (with the essay you already have, also maybe this step could be done for you by ChatGPT)

- Gradually rewrite the essay you've already got in front of you, which can look like a normal writing process

Congratulations, you have now not only got a legit looking edit history, but also you've rewritten what ChatGPT spat out, thwarting other potential methods of detection.

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At this point, you might as well skip steps 1 and 2 and just write the damn essay.

if this process occurred from student' childhood, this is the only way to write some formal things.

In the future, we'll bake bread by scraping the toppings off frozen pizza.

Isn't this pretty much an argument for most GPTed writing?

Taking a GPTed piece of content, cutting out all of the useless stuff, proofreading and polishing it takes just as long as doing it by hand from the beginning?

This assumes a knowledge on the subject they're writing about.

Spoiler: plenty of students using this won't have a clue. That's why they're using it.

Easier still:

- Prewrite essay with ChatGPT.

- Ask ChatGPT to rewrite the essay in the voice of someone 5 years younger.

- Submit the juvenile copy as your rough draft.

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