Avoiding doing assignments by having chatGPT do them is obviously a bad idea. Cheating has always been possible, it always will be, we try to prevent it, but cheaters are really creative and mostly hurting themselves. Any effort spent on preventing students from ripping themselves off is effort not spent on helping the students who are engaging with the system in good faith and trying to learn.

It seems more troubling if people can cheat their way all the way through college. There are a number of skills that really benefit from kind of boring/non-creative work. In intro classes, part of it is just spending enough time learn “reflexes” that will help later. I’m sure it is easy to find tools that will do this work for you.

But at some point, I mean, junior and senior (Err, I guess this is US lingo maybe, last couple years of college) should be doing actually interesting work, to the point where if they can “cheat” their way through the material with new tools, then… they’ve found an interesting new way to solve real problems. And if they aren’t doing anything interesting at all, then there are much, much deeper problems at the school.