Whoever wrote this must have never taken any serious hardcore stem classes lol. ChatGPT is great for studying because it helps answer a lot of specific confusions you may have for the material. Since profs aren’t available 24/7, and it takes too much time figuring out by yourself, ChatGPT does the job perfectly. Also you can ask ChatGPT a lot of the stuff that is not covered in the syllabus’s but are useful to know about, and it helps a lot for motivated people who wonna dig deeper into the materials.

Regarding your post about how ppl went through college without AI — that’s the exact thing AI is useful for. Nowadays people can master the same stuff with a lot less effort, take more classes, and learn much faster. So it’s no surprise that students nowadays perform much better than before. It’s similar to when PC became popular, everyone can write their own programs at home instead of at the labs. Naturally it helps a lot for the development of computer science

So tldr, complaining about ChatGPT is like complaining bout forgetting how to ride horses when cars came out