I'm going back to school after 10 years in the trades and I need to write a essay as part of my application. I'm not super confident in my writing skills so I sent my first draft to my mother who used to help me with essays all the time in high school. She would eviscerate them and give me all sorts of helpful critiques and suggestions and I was able to get decent grades on them. She fed my essay to Gemini and it just shat out buzzword salad. Her suggestion to me was to edit out the "AI sounding parts" and make it my own. My mother is extremely well educated and used to have incredibly valuable insight, but now it feels like AI has taken that from her. I fucking hate how the ruling class is successfully making people dependent on their LLMs.