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Where generated questions help, where they hurt, and how CoStudy tries to land on the right side of that line.
AI-generated study content has an obvious appeal: it's fast to produce and can cover far more ground than a small team writing by hand. It also has an obvious risk: a plausible-sounding but subtly wrong answer key is worse than no study material at all, because you won't know it's wrong until it costs you on the real exam.
The failure mode isn't usually a wildly incorrect answer — those get caught. It's a confidently-worded wrong rationale for a right answer, or a distractor description that's technically inaccurate in a way that teaches a misconception. These slip through because they read as authoritative.
The practical answer is treating generation as a first draft, not a finished product, and building in a review pass — spot-checking a sample of every batch against the real exam blueprint and primary sources, rebalancing questions that lean too hard on one answer letter, and fixing content flagged as wrong rather than trusting it by default. It's slower than pure generation and faster than writing everything by hand, and it's the model CoStudy uses for expanding every bank in the catalog.
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