This thread has some analysis, as well as some speculation about what article the assignment may have been about, as well as the idea that the student may have written the essay based off the abstract alone: www.reddit.com/r/Professors...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

"I wonder what algorithm it's using to sort this data"
-- fine thing to say because machines use data and algorithms and usually are referred to as "it"

"I wonder what algorithm it's using to sort this data"
-- incredibly fucked thing to say about a human

Using the language we use to describe machines and applying it to humans is dehumanizing, because--wait for it--humans are not machines.

The word we use when we describe machines with human language is "anthropomorphizing."

I saw it on the news this morning.