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I don’t see any issue with using it at all as a tool to help studying, the problem is when students just have it do their homework for them.
The problem is the euphemism here. I can't imagine more than a tenth of the people who use LLMs when doing their homework are being restrained and not copying the output, i.e. using it to help. And part of the issue for that is that you'd have to be stupid not to just use the output directly if you know how to avoid getting caught. Only students that value learning for its own sake will ever bother using these tools appropriately and capitalism has only ever taught children that education is a means to an end, getting hired, so there's only more cheating ahead.
Being honest, I’ve found it helpful for rewording complex ideas into simpler language so i can get another perspective on books I’m reading, or give me references/jumping off points for more reading. The idea of an interactive book is quite cool, even if uttterly unreliable thanks to the architecture of LLMs inevitably leading to hallucinations (a misleading term - everything is a hallucination).
But our ignorant, short term, profit driven culture means that I’m a fucking oddity for doing that and not just using it to replace thinking.