[mystraline]

> The only reason there is pervasive student use is because someone made it free. The CoPilot window that comes with the basic tier of 365 and all the other in-app copilots are what my students have; the Google Docs stuff exists, and the Grammarly stuff exists, and the best way to "ban" it (which is just fine as an approach) is to make it even slightly more expensive. If someone does that, yeah, I think some of these products might cease to exist.

So the solution is raise cost, thus making the richies have access but the poors not to?

I guess thats one way to academically bin students; just put yet another financial gatekeeping to the academic process?

[mold_aid]

Bit silly to read that as a "solution." Financial gatekeeping? Unis don't set costs for AI products.

>thus making the richies have access but the poors not to?

I don't know that you need "thus" to describe the status quo. My school has tiny little Dells that are ten years old inside our Prometheus units. You think we're gonna upgrade each unit in the school with costs as they are, or do you think MS is just going to suddenly "provide" a cloud computing solution?