I wonder: what's leading youth to Gauth rather than to their teachers? I also worry that publishing this note will lead to teachers blocking another app, which feels like more pulling the weeds instead of getting to the roots.
Just spoke to a reporter about top ed tech apps and was struck that Gauth wasn’t on their radar given how much we’ve been hearing about it from teens.
"I like how Gauth is just so easy. Like if I have a homework assignment, I'm like, I need a 90. I'll just like go through Gauth the whole way through kind of situation... I'll have a graph and I can't run that really through Chat [GPT]... And the nice thing is [with Gauth] I can just like take a picture and be like, on my merry little way."
Citation: Nearfield. (2026, April). Spring 2026 Gen AI and social media listening loop [Collection of participant quotes]. Nearfield Listening Library. www.thenearfield.org/quotes/ease-of-gauth
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