To use generative AI - or at least to use it badly; to rely on it to do your thinking and communicating - is in some sense to admit defeat and consign yourself to irrelevance. It is an admission that your capability, your personality, even, is replaceable.

At this point it seems fair to say that the lure of cheating is not a fringe sociological bug, found around the margins of AI deployment. It's an essential feature of this new technology. The tech is what it does, and one thing it does very well is tempt people to cheat. At everything.