I mean honestly kids cheat at college because college isn’t even about education for most of them. They’re cheating because they need the piece of sheepskin, a 3.2 GPA and a couple of really good internships to get a job after college. The time spent in college is going to the same places it always has— resume padding and getting drunk (hopefully with co-Ed hanky pinky to follow). There are maybe 3-4 kids in the entire lecture hall building who give a single shit about the education part of college. Everyone else is there for what comes after college. And honestly the kids who only want the education are likely to hate life in academia anyway, as they’ll make McDonald’s money to teach kids who don’t want to learn and write papers that they and everyone else knows nobody will ever read.

I’ve never understood the moral panic about whether college kids were getting and education when everyone absolutely knows from the jump that education has never been the point of college for most people. In 1980, most of these kids would learn the life skill of delegating (aka paying off a sucker) to write their English homework. Chatbot are cheaper.