To be clear people did still cheat before chatgpt. People copy-pasted their homework questions onto Yahoo Answers and copy-pasted the answers into their assignments without really reading them. People paid their older siblings to write their essays for them. People found online versions of similar essays and submitted them as their own.
But everyone knew that this was cheating. If someone got caught, they would be in trouble. They wouldn't openly tell their teacher "yeah I didn't have time so my sister wrote it -- efficient, huh?" If someone in a parent-teacher meeting had said to a teacher "it's not fair that you won't accept this essay that I wrote and put my child's name on!", everyone would agree that that parent had lost the fucking plot. The kid writes their own essay, that's the point of the essay. To teach the kid and to allow the teacher to assess their knowledge. The teacher doesn't set these things because they really love spending an afternoon grading fucking essays.
Using chatGPT for your essay is the same as having your mum write it for you, if your mum isn't very smart and sucks at research. "Oh but I just get chatGPT to do the draft and then edit it myself" do you think that if your mum wrote your essay and you went in and changed some of her writing quirks to be more like your writing quirks it suddenly isn't cheating? Write your own fucking essay, or at the very least acknowledge that you are cheating your way through school.
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