Saw this last night but had to think about it for a while.
I dunno Dave, I don't think we can go back in time so it's going to be the reality now. I guess we'll deal with it the way we deal with the following -
Electronic calculators: We don't get numerical answers to equations with pencil and paper anymore, we plug in the numbers and let the calculator (or computer) get the answer (at our direction).
Mechanical drawings: We don't do mechanical drawings with pencil and paper anymore, the computer draws all the lines (at our direction).
Trip planning: We don't buy a MAPSCO book or paper map to plan a long trip, we type into a map program where we want to start and end and let it figure out the best route (at our direction).
The key idea going on here is -
at our directionSo in the same way -
Essays: We don't write essays anymore, we direct ChatGPT (et. al.) to make one at our direction, on the subject of our choice. So the task is not to write it from scratch, but to get the AI to make the best essay we want (at our direction). Like the CAD program, we use it as a tool to draw. We use ChatGPT as a tool to write. The teacher will grade you on your ability to use the tool creatively. I don't know any other way forward in this future we have come upon.
Here the teacher demos how to use ChatGPT, how to find out if the text was written by AI
How to defeat the AI detection using ChatGPT itself by giving instructions
And how to get Chat GPT to make a better essay based on it's previous result using our own instructional directives. This is how you will get the best out of ChatGPT or other similar AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6cp89S6W8M&ab_channel=Teacher%27sTechSo, as with the calculator and CAD, we use the computing tool to get the written results we want. The better we are at using the tool, the better our results will be. I don't see any other way to approach it other than what we've done in the past with calculators and the other tasks computers have replaced.