Will ChatGPT be Homer Simpson’s salvation?

Imagine a person whose desire for the easy life is stronger than their sense of ethics. And imagine that this person gets hold of a cutting-edge computer app that can produce fast answers to hard questions. Then imagine that person is given a hard question. Instead of answering it himself, he taps it into the computer, then relaxes for a while. Finally he hands over the computer’s answer and takes credit for many hours of hard work, none of which he did.

This is a pretty good description of a 12-year-old schoolboy I know, who typed a homework question into ChatGPT, played on his Xbox all…