AI bot scammers flood California community colleges

As I noted on the YouTube video, this is doubly heinous as a lot of CA community college instructors are "freeway flyers" - working at multiple campuses, sometimes almost 100 miles apart, just to cobble together a full-time work schedule for themselves. Online, self-paced, forum-based class formats were already becoming popular even before the pandemic, and I've been in such classes where the professor indicated that I was one of maybe 3 or 4 students who bothered to show up to in-person office hours. I have to wonder if that will end up being a hard requirement at some point. The bottom rung on the higher-education ladder is already the most vulnerable, and this just makes it worse.

This is rather interesting.

I'm a bit confused as to where/what exactly the scam newsworthiness is. It seems to be scamming for college money/grants/scholarships/loans. However I"m not clear on how this is different from a real student that just never shows up and flunks out eventually. The scam seems started before the enrollment of school when they were approved for the money. The scammer succeeded when they got the money approved before enrolling. It seems like AI is just making it easier to exploit a known loophole longer.

Isn't this just the continued bottom dropping out of the higher education bloat and education financing cash grab overall.