Comment by Grimblewald

as an educator, does match my experience though. I do something similar, tho a little more sophisticated than white text for some assignments so that students not cheating have a way to standout from the pack. in my most recent class of 48 students, maybe 5 actually engaged properly. I dont know if those students used AI or not, and frankly I don't really care, but i do care if students think critically and engage with the content.

I see some improvements in class where we discuss short-comings of AI etc. but realisitclaly life for students now is much harder than it was when I went through. A majority are holding a fulltime job just to keep food in mouth / roof overheadc they simply dont have time to do things properly for the most part as far as I can tell.

From what insight i could gather, both average mark and AI abuse vs us correlate strongly with financial security.

The problem is much deeper than AI abuse, it's a symptom and a useful indicator, not the problem itself.