Fiction Writing Professor Documents Student AI Confessions — Guardian Interactive Investigation

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A Guardian interactive investigation follows a fiction writing professor who confronted students about AI use in creative writing assignments, resulting in confessions that reveal the nuanced ways students integrate AI into their creative process. The piece explores the pedagogical moment: students aren't simply generating essays wholesale but using AI as a brainstorming crutch, sentence-level editor, and confidence prop in ways that erode their own creative development. At 17 points on HN, it's small but represents the cultural frontline of AI dependency in education.