Teachers are on alert for inevitable cheating after release of ChatGPT

AI Cheating
AI Cheating

The source is ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence bot released a few weeks ago that allows users to ask questions and, moments later, receive well-written answers that are eerily human.

Almost immediately, educators began experimenting with the tool. While the bot’s answers to academic questions weren’t perfect, they were awfully close to what teachers would expect from many of their students. How long, educators wonder, will it be before students begin using the site to write essays or computer code for them?

Māra Corey, an English teacher at Irondale Senior High School in New Brighton, Minn., said she discussed the matter with her students almost immediately so they could understand how using the tool could impede their learning.

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