Comment by eru

> If the LLM-assisted writers begin to not even understand their own work (quoting from abstract "LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work.") how do they know they are not putting out nonsense?

They are trained (amongst other things) on human essays. They just need to mimic them well enough to pass the class.

> Taking the article's task of essay writing: someone presumably is supposed to read them.

Soon enough, that someone is gonna be another LLM more often than not.