“One thing I’ve noticed more and more is that students are starting to second-guess their own abilities, especially as writers,” says Cindy Chanin, founder and director of Rainbow EDU Consulting and Tutoring. She’s had students acknowledge that they put their essays through ChatGPT and believe that the rewritten version, stripped of their original voice, “sounded better.”
“That’s what concerns me most—not just the use of AI, but the erosion of confidence it can cause
in students who are still discovering their voices,” she adds.