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The problem is that a lot of students were already cheating, and there's no real benefit to teachers trying to punish the students for it. The schools don't want to do it, because letting one or two students by is, to them, much better than {the public backlash of someone admitting to cheating, the loss of money from kicking paying college students out, ...}, and the teachers don't want to do it because the schools are going to tell them to shut up and stop making noise about it, and it might poison their career to not listen. Of course, if you do that, then they will keep doing it, and you'll get people graduating who poison your reputation eventually, but it turns out to take a while before that happens, if ever... At least when I was in college, it was pretty obvious to the students which students Did Not Do The Work(tm), and it was eye-opening how bad it could get when you took the "for non-majors" versions of various classes. ChatGPT et al are just bringing to the public eye how bad this already was by lowering the bar so much there's no barrier to entry, no "if you know you know" whisper network of people cheating for each other, no wink-and-a-nod "tutoring" service being paid for, just...press button receive paper. |