I’m glad phones weren’t banned when I was still in school but it would’ve been better for me if they were. I think this is one of those things where we need an authority to prevent us from doing something that’s bad for us because we’re not going to do it ourselves. It’s equivalent to mom telling you to eat your vegetables.
The first time I saw text written by GPT it all seemed alright at first glance but once you started to actually read it was immediately obvious it had no idea what it was talking about. It was grammatically correct nonsense.