[secabeen]

You can't easily copy and paste from a printout into AI. Sure, you can track down the reading yourself online, and then copy and paste in, but not during class, and not without some effort.

[xigoi]

LLM services have pretty much flawless OCR for printed text.

[stephenbez]

It’s easy to take a picture of a printout and then ask AI about it. Not that hard even when it’s many pages.

[layer8]

It takes more initial effort than just starting reading, or even just skim-reading the material.