why is that

My process is the same whether I know the author or not: I look at the summary and the tags, and read a bit, and go from there. Plenty of authors I love write stuff I won't be interested in. Plenty of authors I don't know will write things I like. The only way to know is to read it.

I find fics to check out by going through the tags. It's that simple. I also go through folks' rec lists, and bookmarks if they're public. That's p much it. I don't know where this idea came from that a high kudos/comments ratio means it's a good enough fic to try. It means it's a POPULAR fic. You may or may not like it, and it may or may not be 'good', whatever your requirements for that are.

Not only did this experiment prevent plagiarism, it also taught her students to become better writers and thinkers.

"No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete keys."

Concerning the AI papers she kept receiving: “What’s the point of me reading it if it’s already correct anyway, and you didn’t write it yourself? Could you produce it without your computer?”

From one of her students,

“ 'While writing the essay, I had to talk a lot more, socialize a lot more, which I guess was normal back then...it’s drastically different from how we interact within the classroom in modern times. People are always on a laptop, always on the phone.' Without a delete key and the ability to correct every mistake, he paused to think more intentionally about his writing."

"Most students found their pinkies weren’t strong enough to touch-type, so they typed more slowly, pecking at the keyboard with their index fingers."

Another student said,

" 'This thing I handed in had pencil marks all over it and definitely did not look clean or finished. But it’s part of the process of learning that you’re going to make mistakes'..."

All this in a college level foreign language class. I cannot imagine attempting to pass a language class using AI and then expect to somehow magically speak it! Why pay buckets of money to be taught something and then refuse to actually learn it?