"One of my kid's teachers set out a warning to students that all essays would be checked against the other students' essays to see if they are the same and the repercussions one would face if caught. A classmate did a Google search and found the questions of the essay as examples on a book."
One thing is perfectly valid, the other one is not.
Then of course, there are shades of gray. Using ChatGPT for some things is not copying and you can even say the kids are learning to use the tool, but if you use it for 95% of the essay, it is.
Doubtful. This is a new sector/era in the cat-v-mouse game.
> we learn to adapt away from graded homework.
Nothing proposed as an alternative scales well and - ironically - it's likely that something _like_ an LLM will be used to evaluate pupil quality / progress over time.
This isn't a made up situation. Teachers at my school have used AI for essay prompts, test questions, etc and it spreads around and generally leads to the sentiment that "if the teacher is doing it, they can't in good faith tell me to not". Imagine if in math class the teacher , after just telling the students they can't use a calculator, types in a simple arithmetic expression into their calculator.