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I'd rather try to empower students to use ChatGPT as a tool or incorporate it into class work than worry about cheating. This is a pretty unique time for teachers to step up and give their students a nice edge in life by teaching them how to become early adopters for these kinds of things.

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The purpose of writing an essay is to teach students how to think. Being able to prompt is a subset of being able to think. If you only teach them to prompt you have taken away any edge they might have had. Its like those schools that think that getting more ipads will make the kids smarter.

Maybe thought need not be in the form of an essay. The same way a good essay need not be in beautiful cursive.

Perhaps when we have sufficiently capable OSS models, but as it stands GPT is a paid service and not a public good.

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