The “My Homework Was Written by AI” Panic is Over: Here’s What Replaced It

When ChatGPT became publicly available, educators began to imagine the worst-case scenario. Students would no longer write their own essays. Take-home assignments would become impossible to trust. And somewhere, an LLM would be producing a perfectly acceptable five-paragraph essay on The Great Gatsby while its supposed author played video games in another room. The concern was understandable. For the first time, students had free access to technology that could produce convincing written work...