Comment by Terr_

> Asking students for regurgitated info

You're confusing the artifact with the purpose. Teachers across the nation are not trying to accumulate the largest corpus of distinct human-written reviews of The Great Gatby.

The goal is to elicit some kind of mental practice, and the classic request is for something that helps prove it occurred. The issue is that such proofs are now being counterfeited with unprecedented scale and ease.

When those indicators become debased and meaningless, we need to look for other ways of motivating and validating.