“OpenAI is looking to monetize their systems, considering the huge compute costs of creating these models, and their partnership with Microsoft can be an easy way to do so,” he said.”

Considering that students with the money have always been able to hire someone to write their papers, and TurnItIn and other plagiarism services have never been able to detect that mischief… the only real thing to change with these Chat AI programs was that it was accessible to even the poor.  But it seems like in a capitalist society, it won’t be that way for long. (But who knows, right?)

Not really related, but student engagement in the learning process always will be a matter of what they feel is worth while to them.  If they really what to learn, and they feel that the assignments are a benefit to them, they will do the work with integrity.  Assign them inauthentic work, then they may start giving you  inauthentic work back.