With students submitting ChatGPT-generated essays, the professors are merely responding in kind: if you don't care to learn anything save for passing the exam, why should I waste my time crafting lectures when I can generate them?

That quote sounds more like the professor was using ChatGPT as a clipart generator to simply liven up the slides. From this description alone, it's not clear that GPT was used for the slide content. "Distorted text" has got to be referring to the garbled letters you see in AI-generated images – not direct ChatGPT text output, which rarely contains misspellings let alone anything garbled.

But some other parts of that article are much clearer and egregious:

> Halfway through the document, which her business professor had made for a lesson on models of leadership, was an instruction to ChatGPT to “expand on all areas. Be more detailed and specific.” It was followed by a list of positive and negative leadership traits, each with a prosaic definition and a bullet-pointed example.

And:

> in a section for comments [on her three-page essay], her professor had accidentally posted a back-and-forth with ChatGPT. It included the grading rubric the professor had asked the chatbot to use and a request for some “really nice feedback” to give Marie