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A(I) For Effort

hen San Francisco–based startup OpenAI released ChatGPT in November, an existential chill spread through academia. Give the AI-powered chatbot a prompt—even one as esoteric as “Write an essay on the politics of 18th-century Italy” — and it will deliver a polished response in seconds. By

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