Whether it's wise or not, many students are using generative AI to solve their homework problems. That's what we have to wrestle with.

Maybe the concept of homework that isn't interesting enough for them to want to solve it on their own should be thrown out then? Trying to force someone to learn something never works.

At least I personally learn the most when there's some cool thing I want to do and delve into a rabbit hole figuring it out, there is basically nothing that can stop me experimenting and reading stuff to understand what's happening then, and I'll use all of the tools I can to speed up that process, whether it's search engines, reading research papers, or messing with the AI and trying to make sense of its output.

Having the AI generate mostly-functioning code is often a great first step towards having something to mess around with before going deeper.

Before that it was chegg and yahoo answers or paid tutors. Homework is not a good test of ability. Honestly neither is even just doing well alone in school. Many graduate programs expect you to have done some training conducting research under faculty direction now.

GenAI is pretty much interactive search, cheating with some sort of library/info-system always happens. GenAI is a convenience for this info. You can use Yahoo! answers to get your homework solved, or any socially-networked site...

Fully agree. Depending on your choices ChatGPT can either enhance of fully remove your learning.