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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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(1) seems to be a legitimate problem. (2) is just filtering the stronger students from the weaker ones with extra steps. (3) isn't an issue unless a professor teaching graduate classes can't tell BS from truth in their own field. If that's the case, I'd call the professor's lack of knowledge a larger issue than the student's.
You may not know this, but "Masters" is about uncovering knowledge nobody had before, not even the professor. That's where peer reviews and shit like LK-99 happen.
It really isn't. You don't start doing properly original research until a year or two into a PhD. At best a masters project is going to be doing something like taking an existing model and applying it to an adjacent topic to the one it was designed for.