You can't easily copy and paste from a printout into AI. Sure, you can track down the reading yourself online, and then copy and paste in, but not during class, and not without some effort.

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xigoi 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

LLM services have pretty much flawless OCR for printed text.

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stephenbez 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s easy to take a picture of a printout and then ask AI about it. Not that hard even when it’s many pages.

	▲	layer8 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It takes more initial effort than just starting reading, or even just skim-reading the material.