I think it is absolutely fine to write essays using GPT-3 and teachers do not need to worry about it. It just a tool that makes doing so vastly more efficient.

I think it is absolutely fine to write essays using GPT-3 and teachers do not need to worry about it. It just a tool that makes doing so vastly more efficient. I think there is a misunderstanding with these kinds of "AI". Phrasings like "an AI wrote this text" are problematic. This is not some general artificial intelligence but a tool that allows humans to generate text. It is like saying computer generated images are created by computers. Yeah, technically by they are still made by an human artist. AI based tools are just on an much higher level of abstraction but they are still simply tools needing human guidance. So writing a good essay will become much more efficient for students but it will still require some work and skill (though slightly different skill). They still need to select the topic, the keywords, edit it, try to make it fit a coherent narrative and argumentation and so on. The boring execution stuff is cut out but the high level decisions that actually matter are not replaced by the AI. Essay writing will be much improved.