“Study Mode,” a new educational feature released yesterday by OpenAI to much fanfare, was inevitable. The roadblocks were few. Leaders of educational institutions seem lately to be in a sort of race to see who can be first to forge partnerships with AI labs. And on a technical level, careful prompting of LLMs could already get them to engage in Socratic questioning and dynamic quizzing. In fact, Study Mode appears to be just that: it is a system prompt grafted on to the existing ChatGPT models. ...