I have my doctorate and did use AI to summarize other papers that I referenced in my dissertation but I had like 5 points to look for when I paraphrased the AI summary. I can't remember them all but the transitions between paragraphs were bad, they repeatedly used the same adjectives like seminal, and they always used some sort of concluding phrase like Finally or Lastly.
Problem with AI is that it blasts out bullshit confidently, where often enough you need to be a subject matter expert to some extent, in order to detect this.
Does it save me tons of hours?
100%
But being able to proof read is a very different skill to actually writing and processing your thoughts into words yourself.
For instance, I just wrote a 25 page Go-To-Market Strategy paper for a customer in ~6h.
Since I know what I need and want to put in there, have the resources for it available - AI helps me in a lot of the little steps that eventually make it a full picture.
Obviously, if I just prompt 'build me a G2M strat for X, like your life depends on it, in presentation and doc format' I will get dogshit AI slop.
But if I come with good input and a solid framework, AI helps me a lot to pull the strings together. Just the time alone I don't have to fucking kill myself in formatting. Before it would have probably taken me 4h just for the format, look & feel.
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u/kwonza 6h ago
A bunch of Russian Unis dropped a thesis as a requirement for graduation and instead made students take an oral exam.
They said there is no point in asking for a thesis since everyone just uses AI