This moral panic about ChatGPT cheating is pointless. The teachers who are freaking out think that their job is to teach students to write essays, but it never was. Their job is to teach students to effectively express themselves in writing. Very few people write essays for a living, but lots of people write emails or letters.

If ChatGPT helps them do that - like Grammarly on steroids - what's the problem? It just means the "I teach essays" teacher needs to modify their ancient lesson plans.

And I say this as a teacher currently marking a stack of essays.