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I agree with the sentiment except for the last bit, which is a bit harsh. LLMs didn’t exist when I was in uni, but academic dishonesty did happen from time-to-time. It’d usually result in that assignment getting a 0 (sometimes enough to fail the whole module), although repeated offences beget more drastic consequences. LLM use is just a new form of academic dishonesty IMHO, albeit one that is more difficult to detect definitively.
There are a lot of idiots in university who do dumb things but then learn from the experience. Being too punitive would likely be a net negative, especially when talking about pulling their funding…
Really the broader point is nobody should have to take out life-ruining loans for a chance at education in the first place.
In the USA, "contract cheating" or outsourcing work, now and previously, was punishable by expulsion.
Outsourcing work is bad enough, but if students learn to do academics by relying on lying chatbots then eventually they're going to dump that slop into the open world and it will be a net negative for the entire human race. It's a whole new type of harm they're committing incomparable to anything in the past.