I meant to respond this morning and was going to write a whole lot but the day got away from me.

When people had to cheat using Cliff's notes or whatever they still had to engage critical thinking. There were only a few places where the information was summarized and you couldn't directly copy, so you at least had to read and interpret the summary in order to make a passable end product. With an LLM you literally don't even need to know what the question was, you can blindfold yourself and copy/paste a prompt and then copy/paste the output.

When new "shortcuts" emerged in the past, good teachers tried to game-ify a way to teach something the students who were going to rely on them anyway. That's so much harder to do with LLMs and the education system is finally starting to die after decades of strangulation, it's in no position to meet this level of challenge. That means that kids and teachers will feel more like education is worthless because you're a sucker for trying to learn or teach.

People use calculators as an example, they can do the math for you and it hasn't led to the death of math or whatever. They can do the specific calculation for you, but the critical thinking aspect of knowing what the correct calculation should be still had to come from you. These models are changing that in a pretty terrible way.