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8:35am on Friday, 26th April, 2024:
Anecdote
It was final-year project demonstration day yesterday.
ChatGPT famously loves the words "delve" and "robust", so I thought I'd check the frequency of the use of these words in the abstracts that students presented for their work.
I decided to compare the 2024 abstracts with those of 2021, largely because I actually kept a copy of those. There are 234 abstracts in the former set and 345 in the latter.
Uses of "robust" or derivatives (not counting double uses in the same abstract):
2021 — 3
2024 — 23
Uses of "delve" or derivatives (likewise):
2021 — 1
2024 — 10
I expect that students will learn to edit those words out in future.
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