The level of cheating in college, pre-AI, is often overlooked in these articles.
Pre-AI, homework was often copied and then individuals just crammed for the tests.
AI is not the problem for these students, it's that many students are only in it for the diploma.
If it wasn't AI it would just be copying the assignment from a classmate or previous grad.
And I imagine the students who really want to learn are still learning because they didn't cheat then, and they aren't letting AI do the thinking for them now.
Because everyone needs to finish university for jobs that 50-100 years ago were done by people with basic literacy and 4 years of primary school. And even some advanced jobs are basically trades, so trade schools to churn out paper pushers and coders, and so on, but leave the universities for scientists and academics.
Pre-AI, homework was often copied and then individuals just crammed for the tests.
AI is not the problem for these students, it's that many students are only in it for the diploma.
If it wasn't AI it would just be copying the assignment from a classmate or previous grad.
And I imagine the students who really want to learn are still learning because they didn't cheat then, and they aren't letting AI do the thinking for them now.