[jayceedenton]

This is a good example, I think, of why a future in which all homework is obsolete because of AI is actually not likely.

If a lecturer at university sets a task for 100 students (say, write an essay about the factors that led to the first world war), there will be clear and glaring similarities between the way that points are made and explained if many students use chatgpt. Yes a student might rewrite or paraphrase chatgpt, but low effort copy and paste is going to be very obvious because chatgpt's model cannot produce an entirely unique approach to the task every time it is asked.

I know there are weights and parameters that can be adjusted, so there is some variety available, but I think better to think of the LLM as an additional (all-knowing) person you can consult. If everyone consults that same person for an answer to that assignment it's trivial to detect.

[raincole]

If I were the students in the OP's story, the lesson I've learnt would not be "I have to be a better English writer". It would be "I have to cheat better next time so I won't get caught".

[jiggawatts]

The current equivalent is the "just copy the Wiki article".

I've started to notice the low-effort YouTube videos where the arguments / points / facts are presented in the same sequence as the matching articled on Wikipedia.