[throwaway2037]

This sounds great.

I have a roommate who is a weak non-native English speaker. However, he needs to write and submit scientific papers in English. He uses the "pro" version of ChatGPT to improve his written English. He said it is like having a 1:1 English language tutor because he gets nearly instant feedback when trying to rewrite a sentence or paragraph. I am native in English. He showed me some before and after examples. His message remained unchanged, but the revised versions were so much smoother. My point: He is not using ChatGPT to "cheat", rather to improve delivery of his message. I wrote about this previously here on HN. It received very mixed reviews.

[3D30497420]

I'm using ChatGPT to help me learn German. It is good, but as with all current AI it has a tendency to be very confidently wrong. This is especially true for more nuanced grammatical questions, such as "Why is this in dativ?" For that reason, I never feel I can fully trust it (and certainly wouldn't build a language-learning product around it). With that said however, it is a great addition to the various tools I use.

I think what your roommate is doing is fine. Being a native English speaker is a bit of a cheat anyhow. I very much appreciate the challenge of learning another language, so am not going to fault someone for using different tools to help improve their language. So long as the ideas are (relatively) original, the specific wording seems less important.