Yeah, agreed. I am not going to begrudge any underpaid champion of education and literacy doing whatever they need to to do their jobs. More power to them all.
The one place that LLMs like ChatGCP can potentially provide a net benefit that is unabiguously positive is automating mundane tasks. Humans already suck at these, and even my team at my Day Job™ have gotten pretty good at asking Copilot (github’s LLM) to build them a terraform module scaffolding or explain what flags to use on an obscure linux command they infrequently use or suggest optimized syntaxes, etc.
I would imagine there are opportunities for teachers that are along the same vein - take care of some of the mundane, repetitive work and allow them instead to focus on the skilled, creative aspects of their jobs - including paying attention to how students are performing, etc etc.
If anything positive is going to come from these LLMs, it should at minimum be helping awesome people focus on the parts of their jobs that make them awesome, and less on the parts that drag them down.
