I don't know how many teachers or administrators will say it outright, but LLMs and ChatGPT assisted essays are a lot more difficult to detect. ChatGPT is accur

I don't know how many teachers or administrators will say it outright, but LLMs and ChatGPT assisted essays are a lot more difficult to detect. ChatGPT is accurate enough to answer many typical reading comprehension questions at a high school+ level. Students will always feel some incentive to cheat, even if they wouldn't in isolation, they could feel pressured based on their peers. A strong curriculum isn't enough to encourage every single student not to take shortcuts. Despite all external circumstances, it's still an active choice to cheat. Cheating is framed one-way because it's generally discussed imagining the laziest and most adversarial student possible, similar to how you'd red team for security testing. I think the concern is things like ChatGPT will lead to a lot more students cheating. I think it's human nature to want to take shortcuts. I agree with you that the way in which cheating is demonized in a school environment is counterproductive in the long run. I think admin and teachers have hid behind students' fear of academic integrity violations being reported on a college application to not have to admit that most are terrible at catching cheaters. It's from the perspective of imagining ignorant teachers and adversarial students. Most minor cases of cheating aren't caught, even at a college level.