What possible solution could prevent this? The best students are learning on their own anyways, the school can't stop students using AI for their personal learning.

There was a reddit thread recently that asked the question, are all students really doing worse, and it basically said that, there are still top performers performing toply, but that the middle has been hollowed out.

So I think, I dunno, maybe depressing. Maybe cynical, but probably true. Why shy away from the truth?

And by the way, I would be both. Probably would have used AI to further my curiosity and to cheat. I hated school, would totally cheat to get ahead, and am now wildly curious and ambitious in the real world. Maybe this makes me a bad person, but I don't find cheating in school to be all that unethical. I'm paying for it, who cares how I do it.

People aren't one thing.