I did a thing this term where I told my students they were allowed to use ChatGPT. The catch was, they had to tell me about it in a reflection when they handed in their paper. This is a thread about how it all went. First let me say not all students took me up on the opportunity. About 48% of the class did not use ChatGPT for various reasons.

If you read writing literature, you'll find people who write about writing have been ranting the same things about the same bad pedagogy and grading practices for 40 years (or more). Why can't we move forward? ... systemic structures that disallow it and socialize against it. So what have writing scholars been ranting about for 40 years that the rest of academia seems to not be able to hear.
1) That writing is a community and socialized activity. What discipline you are in dictates what is acceptable.