Professor's chart shows students now send AI-generated emails with unfilled [your name] placeholders
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-23
A viral comparison chart shared by an economist shows how student emails to professors have evolved: formal and polite back in the day, blunt one-liners in 2021 ("why did i get a bad grade i worked really hard"), and by 2026 perfectly polite again — but clearly AI-generated, complete with unfilled [professor name] and [course code] placeholders.
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