How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?

Wanna humanize? I could come over later, bring a few beers, and we could, you know, get down to some serious humanizing. Hard to resist, these days, given what’s at stake. For students with assignments to complete, who have already vanquished their desolation by asking ChatGPT to compose an essay on their behalf, a humanizer is an A.I. tool that takes what has been produced, puts it through a further digital mill, and makes it sound as if it had emerged from a verifiable person. Among the companies that offer such tools are StealthWriter, HIX AI, and QuillBot. (If Nabokov had written science fiction, his villain would have been called Quillbot.) Anyone who has buttered and blitzed a mountain of mashed potatoes into a purée will understand. It’s hard to live with the lumps.