Obviously typing from start to finish with few edits is also a "failed" result in such a program. Someone actually writing an essay should be creating structure, taking notes, rearranging paragraphs etc.

Then again you have a good point. Often you blat out an essay and then edit it. Same thing goes with typing in an AI generated template.

> Obviously typing from start to finish with few edits is also a "failed" result in such a program.

I hear ya, but I wonder if there are people who have the proper mental organization to write a well-organized coherent essay in one shot.

I'm not one of those people, but I assume they exist. And I assume they would be unfairly penalized with such a system.

That being said, I think we are going to end up in a world where we are all communicating with each other via ChatGPT (or whatever succeeds it).

ChatGPT will be our "Lingua Franca" as well as our "Mens communis" (I got that by asking ChatGPT). Strange times ...

* edits for clarity: ha! </irony>