Yeah this article misses a big point and you’ve highlighted it well. If you just ask students to regurgitate course material generically, it doesn’t (and wasn’t) leading to good learning outcomes whether LLMs existed or not. All the LLM is doing here is signalling to the teacher that their assignment design is bad, but it seems they’re learning the wrong lesson.

There’s a lot of “no, it is the children who are wrong” going on in academia right now and it’s an issue.