In the quote the author is speaking about students handing in an assignment and using ChatGPT to write it. He says:

> This may not count as plagiarism, but it won’t produce anything new.

First, it is plagiarism by definition. Any time one presents work as their own which they did not create themselves is plagiarism .

Second, and vastly more importantly going forward, students were never handing in “new” ideas on an assignment. Using an LLM to generate a “pastiche” that is then read by the student (hopefully) before being handed in is still a win in my book. Having students ask their questions to an LLM can be an amazing tool to further learning but when students and educators are terrified of this new tool they will hide their usage of it and then it becomes a tool for copying rather than learning and plagiarism is the only consequence.