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Two of the 12 students interviewed at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State said they abstained from AI altogether, citing the technology’s excessive use of water and energy in one case, and an unwillingness to “lose my voice” in the other. Four students said they used it only for legitimate, tutoring purposes — to explain math and science complexities or to quiz themselves — and never to do their work for them.

But six said they use AI to do some or most of their work, with some insisting that this isn’t cheating. Others said that it is. Some criticized professors for prohibiting AI, while others claimed their instructors don’t actually want them to do the assigned reading and are fine with AI-generated summaries.

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She’ll have a “big sploosh of ideas,” which she types into Chat. “I’ll be like, can you condense my ideas into a few sentences? And it will. I’ll usually copy what it says. I’ll consider it mine because they’re my ideas,” she said.

At San Francisco State, a student majoring in speech and language said she couldn’t remember the last book she had read for school, though she had recently been assigned at least three.

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