BOSTON — Tatiyana Reaves got into trouble recently for writing a one-syllable word — and not the one you’d think.
Taking a computer class at her Fayetteville, N.C., high school, she handed in a paper with the offending word: whilst.
“[The teacher] called me over, and she was like, ‘I don’t want to see you using AI,’ ” the 16-year-old rising junior recalled. If she’d asked, Reaves would have said she didn’t use AI to write the piece — that’s just the way she talks…