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Posted on 08/09/2025 2:16:42 AM PDT by Openurmind
In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a household name, but recent data reveals a telling pattern in its usage that underscores the tool’s controversial role in education. According to a report from Futurism, published on August 8, 2025, OpenAI’s platform experiences significant drops in activity during weekends and summer months—periods when schools are typically out of session. This fluctuation suggests that a substantial portion of ChatGPT’s traffic may stem from students using it for homework assistance, or more pointedly, cheating.
The numbers are stark: usage plummets by as much as 20-30% on non-school days, aligning closely with academic calendars. Industry analysts interpret this as evidence that ChatGPT isn’t just a productivity booster but a crutch for academic dishonesty. Educators have long voiced concerns, and this data provides empirical backing, highlighting how AI tools are infiltrating classrooms in ways that challenge traditional notions of learning and integrity.
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They don’t think of it as cheating, just another tool in completing assignments. Where this leads no one knows for sure, except that learning is going to change into something we cannot yet imagine.
My father was an electronics expert, but he decided to retire when the vacuum tube era was being replaced by semiconductor technology. For the first time I understand how he felt: I am too old to change to what’s coming with AI, and old enough to hand my classes to professors who can—as long as they aren’t woke, and there’s a growing number of those as well.
Some will use it to cheat. Others will use it as a learning assistant.
Thank you for the first important bump. :)
But I can’t help leaning towards it being a cheat sheet you can just copy and paste. Or having someone else do your home work for you. Neither require a mind, so the mind doesn’t get any use or retention. I think it defeats the whole purpose of “learning” anything at all in the first place.
If it’s ok to give calculators to kindergartners to do math, what’s the problem with ChatGPT?
Writing is a hard skill to develop.
Every student should be working toward the goal of concise, punchy, trenchant, hopefully witty and persuasive, prose.
AI can certainly be used as a tool, like anything else, but not as a substitute for find one’s own adult voice.
...finding...
(proofreading—another essential skill...or discipline? Lol)
BTTT
They don’t think of it as cheating, just another tool in completing assignments. Where this leads no one knows for sure, except that learning is going to change into something we cannot yet imagine.
So called education; and’smart ‘ devices.
Think of each as a brain transplant where all the think is removed and wash is installed.
Pandemic with an obvious lack of THINK, common sense and ability to communicate
It’s not a writing tool or assistant. It is a cheat program no matter how it’s labeled or marketed. However, spotting AI student submissions means the instructor better have some solid writing skills.
On the surface, AI submissions look well researched or “fulfilling” the writing assignment. That’s their weakness. I can spot them because they do not develop the topic (if a research paper) and are redundant. For fiction writing, characters do not develop nor are they characterized in a meaningful way. Plots are glaringly vacant of a good storyline.
The real problem is that we have a generation with very low reading and writing comprehension skills. In public education, critical thinking without leftist agenda directives has become non-existent.
I suspect there is not much in the way of motivation or policy to deal with AI submissions for assignments.
Of course, reading and writing go hand in hand. AI gives a boost to the students who do not have good reading or research skills. They rely on it for inputting information and regurgitating it. Yes, it’s that bad. Think of what this means for the future of students in high school and college right now.
“ChatGPT Usage Dips 20-30% on Breaks, Hinting at Student Cheating”
campus library usage drops even more then ... must be massive cheating going on there too, right?
Profs need to assign reading and studying homework, but all graded material is done in class (quiz, exam, oral questions).
Bring back blue books!
“They don’t think of it as cheating, just another tool in completing assignments.”
I’m a college professor and I am seeing quite a bit of ChatGPT being used by students. Here is the issue. Many of my students do not cite their sources, yet write a pretty good paper. The bigger issue, is students are submitting ChatGPT created papers without bothering to check if the paper makes sense. With liberal grading, without citations, the school is only taking fractions of a point off for lack of citations and references.
What students do not know is we do check for AI content. If I suspect a paper is created with AI, I just enter the contents of the paper into ChatGPT and ask if the paper was created with AI.
My daughter is a HS teacher and she has tools to determine if a paper was written by AI and had to fail a couple students. Like someone else mentioned use it for research but I would still independently source any scholastic paper.
I really don’t want to be diagnosed by a doctor who relied on AI to get through medical school.
An honest search engine is “research”. AI is researching AND writing the whole paper for you. That is a huge difference...
Total BS.
Even AI would not create such a stupid article.
SummerS?? school yearS??
How many have we had with AI?
No.....kids chat, disagree, use AI to find an answer.
Kids and adults also are tiring of AI uselessness for some things and have better things to fo in summer.
More crap.
I wouldn’t say it’s purely cheating. Though I am sure many are.
Being able to ask questions to understand complex concepts isn’t “cheating”.
Though you can wind up following mirages especially on specific details and implementation.. it actually do a reasonable job of distilling information into consumable bites.
“They don’t think of it as cheating, just another tool in completing assignments. “
The kids probably see it as we once saw electronic calculators. I was a student at the tail end of the slide rule era. Initially, some teachers wouldn’t allow calculators in class.
Obviously, AI is different. Relying on AI means you accept any errors as your own, and if you are put in a situation that requires your own thought and reasoning, you’ll be woefully unprepared.
“It’s not a writing tool or assistant. It is a cheat program no matter how it’s labeled or marketed.”
I absolutely agree. It has been created to either satisfy laziness, or to satisfy greed, or both. There is no other practical logical purpose for this tool.
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