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Before the pandemic, two of my coworkers were first year law students together at the local university. The teachers discovered a cheating ring of 170+ students in their class of something like 200 students.
They just made them take a new version of the most recent exam and there was no other punishment, because it was too devastatingly large a portion of their students to expel them all, even though that was their stated policy.
I suspect something similar will happen with AI, and it will be just as disappointing.
85% of law students have poor ethics. Yeah, that sounds about right
And here we can observe the mechanism behind collective action: Whether what you're doing is legal is becomes less important if there are enough of you to make punishing them all infeasible.
Of course, reality is more complex and less homogeneous than a class of aspiring lawyers, so assembling a sufficiently large and disciplined group is more difficult.
Too big to care
yea it would likely draw in investigation from otuside sources, too much negative publicity would hurt the law school, less people applying to a less than legitimate school. could be de-accreditation worthy too.