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go to https://chatgpt.com/, they have a record function where they can transcribe your talking into words for 10 minutes at a time (allowing for mic permissions). Having AI transcribe your raw thoughts from your vocals into text saves a lot of time if your brain works faster than what your fingers can type and process into words.

if you just want to zone out and start talking out the premise of the paper, just record yourself on your phone on one of those free apps so you don't have to be cognizant of breaking your speech and thoughts every 10 minutes. or literally call or talk to a friend about the subject and tell them you are recording the phone call for it to be later transcribed by chatgpt's voice-to-text by playing back the recording into the mic.

Do not press 'send' on chatgpt (you can if you want, but this is the stuff to avoid because you just want your raw thoughts at the moment). instead, copy the text onto notepad, or better yet, the microsoft edge browser has an option where you can highlight the first word of your transcribed thoughts, right click > more tools > read aloud from here. you can use the Edge browser to have your own words be read aloud back to you so you can pause and start to correct for grammar mistakes, mis-transcriptions, and rewrite the paragraph better if you stammer where you become your own editor of your raw thoughts

once you have enough of your words transcribed and edited into the version 1 of your paper, copy it into a word editor (even notepad) and don't care about overcorrecting for grammar and punctuation that much as long as the main points are understood. paste the text into a lesser AI like https://www.perplexity.ai/ where you can volley off thought and have it improve on the blind spots of your arguments. the reason to use perplexity more is because it has better citations if you are writing a paper and also doesn't go into scored-AI mode trying to nanny you to death as a their foster petulant child all the time. get in and get out with your thoughts in tact but only ask lesser AI on FEEDBACK and not how to write a paper or rewording it...the rewording step is how you get caught to be put on academic probation for using AI...

ONLY volley thoughts with lesser AI like perplexity on how to improve your paper but not just simply copy-paste their wording because you would get caught if their writing style is really a dead-giveaway. Through the feedback loop, continue to record your raw thoughts with the voice transcription method of chatgpt and edit and augment your paper that way. continue to get feedback using perplexity on your additions and take whatever meaningful sources and citations it gives you for a well rounded paper

lastly, once you are satisfied with your edited and augmented raw thoughts using AI only as a feedback loop (and not rewriting your entire paper), then copy the text into microsoft word and then go hard on the grammar and punctuation and semantics. paste your drafts into an email document just to have Microsoft Edge read aloud your own words back to you to hear if the grammar, meaning, transcription, or language is wrong in anyway

because you are copying text away from chatgpt into perplexity and onto an email document, make sure the email document auto-saves or you have your previous drafts submitted into perplexity to not lose earlier versions of your raw drafts. avoid chatgpt feedback because it's an internet karen and chatgpt's rewrites are so obnoxiously AI that it triggers AI scanner to know you used AI

good luck