Chegg

They're not allowed to use AI unless it's authorized.

They can't have a Chegg subscription.

They can't copy and paste other students' notes or outlines or answers.

Now, I'm sure there is some percentage of students at the service academies who will roll the dice and try to get away with this or that, some kind of assistance on the margins, but it's not widespread or conspicuous or blatant.

Penske Media owns Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline.

Chegg is the education company.

Both sued Google over AI overviews.

Their argument went like this.

Like...

Dealing with the plagiarism issues, right? The stuff we talk about in computer science, we've known for years that percentage of our students, you could go to Chegg or you could go to your friend or you could go and get them to do the assignment for you.

And we had tools and trying to fix some of these things to make it.

But realistically, we just went, well, we're just going to kind of pretend that's not a thing.

If Google and Quizlet was enough for you.

No, Chegg.

Go get right on Chegg.

Get all the answers.

Don't tell my professor.

AI can help with that, but it is understanding that your stuff from an academic perspective, integrity point of view from a, you know, a chief academic officer provost point of view is your stuff has probably been compromised.

And if you go out on Course Hero or Chegg or whatever that's there, it may be there.

So that's the first issue of that for the integrity, but it's addressing the assessments faster.

And then I think it's also that look at assessment in what do we need to have students do to That is really important.

And one of the moats that's evaporated very quickly is any sort of moat around content.

Stack Overflow, Quora, even Reddit, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Chegg.

These were all companies that had built up these moats around content where they had a flywheel of users coming in, generating content, then they distribute that content through SEO.

More users come in, more people generate content.

They can use AI to write their papers.

They can subscribe to Chegg and solve all their econ problem sets.

They can take their exams from their dorm rooms.

They're accountable basically to themselves by and large.

You have no control over that.

And even before AI with, you know, Google and Chegg and friends and pay someone to write your essay, you still never really knew.

I call that the cost of doing business online.

Like it's really hard to control.

Yeah.

At the Series A, we actually got an acquisition, well, like a soft kind of verbal unsolicited acquisition offer from Chegg.

Oh, Series A. Yeah, Series.

Well, we got to a Series.

But the Series A was kind of a

monumental moment, not just because it's a Series A and you've kind of proven more than, you know, just an idea with some traction.

But we raised from Chegg.

There was no acquisition.