School is also an arms race. They are fighting for rank, once people use it for that purpose you have to keep up.

> Rampant use of AI for cheating is not at all incompatible with negative opinions of AI.

Possibly. Either way it (for me at least) neatly highlights why AI will succeed.

The students you talk about don't abstain from AI use entirely - they utilise AI for things they consider 'unworthy' of their attention/effort.

That is precisely the market AI will capture first - the tasks and processes that people (in general) have to do but don't really have any passion/interest in doing and for which perfection isn't critical.

And what may surprise many people in this thread (given its flow so far)...there are a whole heap of things that you and I care about, that 10s if not 100s of millions of other people consider 'unworthy' of their attention/effort and for which they will happily make do with a 'sub par' AI experience if it's cheaper, easier, more convenient.

Is this all being astroturfed?

Even researcher are using AI to do their research. It's not just being used for cheating.