Great thread. I did something similar last year and got all of the same responses. Plus a lot of "I have to use it because I know others and employers are."
No one seemed really happy to do so.
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/