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1. losved+C5[view] [source] 2026-01-08 19:27:43
>>Rooste+(OP)
I've been thinking the same. I'm actually building a little site that presents a textarea that you can type your comment into and it will track its changes over time (typing, editing, pasting, etc) and provide a little playback widget so someone can see the composition of the comment. The idea being you can include a link to the playback in your comment that you post here and someone can eyeball it and see if it looks like you really spent some time writing it, vs just pasting in LLM slop. Of course, a sophisticated agent could _simulate_ writing the comment, but I think it could still help in general.
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2. rd+X5[view] [source] 2026-01-08 19:29:34
>>losved+C5
I don't know why more school districts don't force this for essays. It's so straightforward with Google doc editing history too. And yeah, sure, you can get around it if you _really_ want quite trivially, but I imagine it would solve for 99% of students, and force them to actually engage with whatever AI-generated stuff they inevitably type by hand more than they were before.
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3. johnis+hb[view] [source] 2026-01-08 19:58:06
>>rd+X5
I have no problems typing an essay out.
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