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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
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The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
The featured essay AI (artificial intelligence) This article is more than 1 month old I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment This article is more than 1 month old The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words Micah Nathan Sun 10 May 2026 09.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 13 May 2026 09.43 EDT Share View image in fullscreen I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very
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