They might grant educators more confidence about allowing, or even encouraging, their students to use AI. But there’s a more ambitious vision behind Study Mode. But painting Study Mode as an education equalizer obfuscates one glaring problem. Underneath the hood, it is not a tool trained exclusively on academic textbooks and other approved materials—it’s more like the same old ChatGPT, tuned with a new conversation filter that simply governs how it responds to students, encouraging fewer answers and more explanations. And because of the way AI works, you can’t expect it to distinguish right information from wrong.