Some educators propose that college applicants use ChatGPT to make up for the lack of a family containing well-educated people who can help them write the essay in high-quality English. Especially applicants who are not native speakers of English.
The idea was new to me but I'm not opposed to it. However, when the article talks about "how students can use AI ethically", it makes a number of important errors:
What it intends by that phrase is whether the students are behaving ethically in their use of a language model. It doesn't raise the question of whether the language model treats its users ethically. It starts from the usual attitude that however digital system developers decide to treat their users can only be accepted — that they have the right to impose any conditions they like. Unless they are illegal; but letting laws decide right and wrong is backwards!
It says that these generative tools are "cheap are free", but I think it means that using them is gratis/ ChatGPT is not free software; it is not even proprietary software. Its software is unreleased, not available to users.
The only way people can use ChatGPT is as an online disservice, because it is SaaSS (service as a Software Substitute). See https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html for why that is an injustice to the user.