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You’ve made your position clear, and I respect your choice. I’ll just note one final point for accuracy: Copilot’s output is not evidence of authorship. It flags stylistic patterns, not facts, and it regularly marks human writing as “possibly AI‑generated.” That’s the only reason I pushed back — not to change your mind, but to keep the standard grounded in something reliable.

You’re free to withdraw from any discussion you like, but “AI suspicion” isn’t a meaningful standard. Modern AI can write almost anything a clear‑thinking human can write, and humans often write in ways that AI detectors falsely flag. So your decision is based on a tool that guesses, not on evidence. Nothing in my replies requires AI, and nothing in them proves AI. They’re just ...

You’re free to withdraw from any discussion you like, but “AI suspicion” isn’t a meaningful standard. Modern AI can write almost anything a clear‑thinking human can write, and humans often write in ways that AI detectors falsely flag. So your decision is based on a tool that guesses, not on evidence. Nothing in my replies requires AI, and nothing in them proves AI. They’re just ...

You’re drawing the wrong conclusion from the Copilot analysis. Copilot doesn’t “detect” AI the way people assume—it compares writing patterns to what could be AI‑like, and it often flags perfectly normal human writing. That’s especially true when someone writes clearly, structurally, or in long paragraphs. None of that proves the response was generated by AI, and it certainly is...

Legacies are children of alumni.Thanks for the clarification - not a usage I've come across in UK, where "legacies" means sums of money left to others in your Will.

Don't think it's common in the UK for universities to give preference to children of alumni. But I asked whether you think such practices are wrong, and you answered
They're clearly not "fair", using ...