> You can just tell an LLM to debate, find out inconsistencies and issues in your writing, and challenge you, and it will very well do that!
Sure, but the point is that you are supposed to be able to find these inconsistencies and issues in your writing. That is the skill.
Indeed, LLMs can be helpful as an alternative to a teacher, if thought of as a sophist (I have even done research on this [0]). But that is not the approach you are proposing.
If you want students to be able to reason about these things on their own, then LLMs doing the hard work of identifying the gaps in their logic is counter-intuitive.
Sure, but the point is that you are supposed to be able to find these inconsistencies and issues in your writing. That is the skill.
Indeed, LLMs can be helpful as an alternative to a teacher, if thought of as a sophist (I have even done research on this [0]). But that is not the approach you are proposing.
If you want students to be able to reason about these things on their own, then LLMs doing the hard work of identifying the gaps in their logic is counter-intuitive.
[0]: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98197-5_31