This. It’s actually simple. Tools like ChatGPT erode the business model of higher education. Why study to learn skills that ChatGPT can readily reproduce. I think we will see more bans outside academia soon.

Why does the conversation about ChatGPT revolve around academic plagiarism? It’s the perfect distraction!

This technology might eliminate a lot of professions. Not just copywriters, journalists and the like who already have a hard time to earn a living from doing their job. It’s coming for lawyers and programmers also - or anything really that isn’t manual labour. In some perverted twist of fate, robotics proved to be the harder problem than replicating the skills of 6-figure+ jobs. Which is why self-driving cars aren’t a thing just yet. And you won’t have robot fixing your plumbing anytime soon.