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June 13, 2026Education SciencesOpen Access

Does the Thesis Still Make Sense? A Comparative Analysis of Scientific Essays Generated by Humans and Generative Artificial Intelligence

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MTMátyás TurósKSKlára Soltész-VárhelyiZSZoltán Szűts

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Overview

Quantitative analysis reveals differences in essay quality between human authors and AI models, suggesting implications for education.

Key Points

  • The study aims to analyze differences between human-authored and AI-generated academic essays in Hungarian.
  • Conducted a quantitative text analysis of essays from human authors and AI models.
  • Performed a blind evaluation with 391 human reviewers of varying expertise.
  • Assessed lexical, syntactic, and stylistic features quantitatively and qualitatively.
  • AI-generated essays had lower lexical diversity and lacked epistemic markers.
  • Human reviewers noted AI texts' formal precision but criticized their originality.
  • Moderate prompting led to AI essays being viewed as superior in some aspects compared to human texts.

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Turós et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2cf688faef96ed7f058409https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16060920
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