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I don't need to ask an educator - I can just ask my kids, and they and their friends absolutely hate it.

According to Pew, almost 70% of teens report to have used LLMs/chatbots, and 30% use it daily. This is also over 6 months out of date, which feels like an eternity at the current rate things change.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social...

You mean that after multiple years, 30% of teens haven't even ever used an LLM? Those kids probably don't even know what an LLM means since using google is now using an LLM.

But do they use it when their homework is due?

No, it's a myth - actually they scoffed and complained very loudly recently when they were picking a destination for a school trip, and the teacher suggested they would use ChatGPT "quickly" to compare their suggestions. Also anyone who thinks the kids could survive school assignments based on ChatGPT...clearly does not know who schools work these days...

Our experiences differ, it's no myth over here.

Interesting anecdote, that's been almost the complete opposite of my experience in Higher Ed.

I probably know more people using AI to cheese all of their school assignments than those that are fully 'clean'.

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