[frereubu]

I think you missed the entire point of the article. They're not saying that AI cannot be useful in the way you describe. They're saying that too many people are using it as a shortcut to producing verbiage that mimics the outcomes of learning, missing out the valuable things that come from the process of learning.

[wilg]

Is there any evidence to suggest more people are cheating now that there is AI than before, or is everybody just flipping out because the cheaters have changed tactics?

[eru]

It's almost always good to ask about what evidence we have.

I'd say that our prior should be that there's more cheating. My logic:

Almost any good or service gets consumed more when its price drops (especially if quality also goes up). Cheating has gotten massively cheaper in terms of effort: you no longer have hire a ghostwriter for your essay, or laboriously plagiarise passages from the literature yourself.

[wilg]

That logic is the conventional wisdom, but I just want to know whether it's true empirically.