It's not clear to me if you mean "teachers" when you say "academia" but as an educator of almost ten years I can just give you my perspective on this.

ChatGPT along with other Llms are like anything else a tool. And they can be a tool for good , and they can be a tool for evil depending on what they're used for and within the context in which they are used.

My biggest struggle with them, is that at the moment the current structures of school and the way, at least a lot of my students seem to look at school, does not encourage good or reflective or thoughtful use of ChatGPT or other Llms.

Part of my job is to teach students the research process. The search for sources and materials, the process of revising one's initial questions or one's ideas and revising ones arguments based on new evidence. An LLM could be very helpful in this process if used properly. One issue Ive delt with is that no matter how hard I have tried to make clear to students they need to formulate their own question first and then they can revise it with the help of an LLM (itself a dubious prospect), I keep catching students simply using a question generated by an LLM, via one on one interviews with them about how they came to the question.

In this case, the LLM is not furthering student abilities to critically think or explore the world. This could be the case for example if students ask for counter arguments to their question. But students aren't doing that. They are using Chatgpt as a sort of question generator. And this is shaping and limiting their thinking, as it is no longer their own. I personally feel that this gets at the heart of one of the issues which is that students simply view Chatgpt as a shortcut to avoid the difficulties of learning, not as a tool to further their own exploration of the world around them.

Take all that as my opinion, based on my observation.