> and it was pretty bad

But it won't be pretty bad for too long. Give them 2 or 5 years...

It's not that simple -- it's of course natural to ask whether the teachers are requiring rote tasks, or memorizing data. But it's likely that in the future AI systems will be able to produce meaningful texts with somewhat credible argumentation. I know several of teachers who do want students to think (instead of doing rote tasks) are also worried about chatGPT. For example, you may want to assess by asking students to write an essay with the specific goal to make a point, or a rebuttal of something that was already read in class, or whatever. The problem is that chatGPT can do that -- although a crappy job. But the crappy job may be just enough for the student to pass.

So the question is how to do assessment, knowing that students will have access to AI tools -- not chatGPT, but the evolved versions of it and also the other AI tools yet to come. Because we are not supposed to expect people to not think by themselves...

The problem is when you need to teach -- and assess the homework of -- dozens of students. Education needs to be offered to the masses, but the way it's done today is to put so many people together that the teacher has no option other than not look at how each student develops. This becomes a larger problems in colleges and universities with more than 60 students in each classroom, and teachers having to work on several of those simultaneously.