Remember Blue Books? Sales Skyrocket As Teachers Try to Counter AI Cheating

The rise of generative AI may have many fearing for their jobs, but there’s one unexpected industry getting a surprise boost from tools like ChatGPT—the makers of “blue books,” the small booklets of lined paper used for exams in schools.

Sales of blue books more than doubled between 2022 and 2024, according to data from Circana, as reported by The Economist, around the same time AI chatbots gained popularity among students all over the world. Teachers have been forced to get…