Raw LLM Responses

I disagree with your point about using AI as a mentour. How do you imagine working through an idea with AI? Not only is what it tells you just it's best prediction of what your next response will be, but it will also be based off of the content of the internet it's been trained on - research articles, pdfs of course books, whatever else- things that /you/ could have found yourself. In the worst case scenario it will just agree to whatever you tell it, providing no useful input whatsoever. Maybe using it like this isn't harming your problem solving skills quite so much, but it certainly is harming your research skills. You're handing over your independence in terms of picking what information gets delivered to you, and trading that in for a chatbot who may not even give you accurate sources. And all of tbat doesn't mention that it's wasting a lot of water. If you're a student at a univeristy, it really shouldn't be that hard to find a real person to work through your ideas with - there's scientific associations, your peers, students from later years in your course and even your professors. I also don't believe that the switchup for writing assignments in class is as great of a solution as it may be presented as. Discarding the issues of truly long term projects, and the fact that sometimes people are able to sneak in phones or whatever else and still cheat, it's a scheduling and a physical issue. Students tend to arleady be tired so to expect them to be able to do writing assignments all by hand in class is... not a very good idea. I have one class in which we do lab reports by hand in-class instead of at home on computers. Writing a report under laboratory lighting sucks, you're tired after 3+ hours of labwork, and besides you still need things like excel for data analysis. Assuminf this solution would only apply to non-STEM fields, that's asking the univeristy to be able to allot a significant amount of time and probably a classroom to let the students do their writing assignments. This all doesn't even take into account the fact that some people may have disabilities that make it hard to write by hand for a long time, or that makes their handwriting hardly legible. It's some sort of a solution to the AI issue, but it's neither the best or the most practial one. If you want to argue that the assignments could be done on university computers, that in turn requires the unuveristy to have the ability to provide each student with a computer, preferrably in a limited amount of classrooms so they don't need to be supervised by too many people, and since you're still giving them texhnology I don't know if there's a way to guarantee they won't cheat. Just my thoughts as a student myself (and one who refuses to use AI in their studies).