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		secabeen 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: English professors double down on requiring printe... You can't easily copy and paste from a printout into AI. Sure, you can track down the reading yourself online, and then copy and paste in, but not during class, and not without some effort.

xigoi 15 days ago | [–]

LLM services have pretty much flawless OCR for printed text.

stephenbez 15 days ago | [–]

It’s easy to take a picture of a printout and then ask AI about it. Not that hard even when it’s many pages.

layer8 14 days ago | [–]

It takes more initial effort than just starting reading, or even just skim-reading the material.

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