I wrote about this topic last week based on a couple articles I’d read about how the use of AI by high school and college students has changed things. Students no longer have to work hard or even at all to complete major assignments in classes like English, History, etc. Anyone who has a computer or a phone and can type a prompt into ChatGPT can produce a credible essay. It’s just so easy to cheat now that you’d be a fool not to do it.
And most of the kids who make it to college aren’t fools. Hence, this recent article from New York Magazine titled “Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College.”
Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University’s campus this past fall and, by his own admission, proceeded to use generative artificial intelligence to cheat on nearly every assignment. As a computer-science major, he depended on AI for his introductory…