Professor warns: Do not use GenAI for drafting PhD application emails
nandofioretto · x · 2026-08-26
Advice for students contacting professors during PhD application season: Do not use generative AI to draft your emails. Professors working in GenAI are also users of frontier models and find it easy to spot the "sloppiness" of AI-drafted text. The instinct is often to simply delete these emails.
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