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            People have been cheating on their homework as long as homework has existed. AI is just the latest method to do so. It’s easier to cheat with than previous methods, but that’s been true for every new method of cheating.

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              not essays

              Yes, essays. Pre-written essays on subjects that you could plagiarize line for line.

              not free help like this

              Yes, free help like this, on message boards and blogs and YouTube channels and chat groups. Very likely better help, too, since you’re getting the information from subject matter experts rather than some random amalgamation of text shoved into a language model output template.

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                Pre-written essays on subjects that you could plagiarize line for line.

                In my time these were absolutely awful and vacuous circumlocution. Not to mention TurnItIn.

                Yes, free help like this, on message boards and blogs and YouTube channels and chat groups.

                You have to pay for the messageboards that are actually useful and already have your question like Chegg. The only comparable free platform I used only worked on Chinese homework. Anything else you’d have to post your question and wait about an hour. ChatGPT takes one minute. And its quality today is way better than you think. You can just take a photo of homework and it’d give you the right answers 90% of the time and with explanations.