> If a system can be screwed up merely by giving teachers and students access to useful tools, maybe it wasn't that great in the first place. That's a pretty s

> If a system can be screwed up merely by giving teachers and students access to useful tools, maybe it wasn't that great in the first place. That's a pretty stupid take. A "useful tool" is only useful in a context, and we really only want that tool used to to good. It's not good to have tool used to do bad things. If a school system can be screwed up merely by giving all students free access to guns, maybe is wasn't that great in the first place, amirite? Essays (for instance) are a means to an end of developing young minds (which is a good thing) by getting them to engage with something. If your "useful tool" makes bypassing that engagement (cheating) simple and easy, those young minds will float through less developed. There's a lot of hype about LLM tutors, but I don't see that solving much. They'll end up tutoring LLM students, so the real student can invest more effort in playing some addictive video game. And then that decayed state will become the new normal, and some idiot will declare it's the best because that's what he knows.