By Jeffrey R. Young Jan 24, 2023
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This article is part of the guide The EdSurge Podcast.
Colleges around the country have been holding emergency meetings of their honor code councils or other committees that govern student cheating.
The reason: a whole new kind of cheating that is suddenly possible, thanks to a new AI tool called ChatGPT. The technology, which emerged just a couple of months
go, can answer just about any question you type into it, and can adapt those answers into a different style or tone on command. The result is it generates text that sounds like a person wrote it.
As we explored in an episode of the EdSurge Podcast a couple weeks ago, students around the country at schools and colleges have figured out that they can easily ask ChatGPT to do their homework for them. After all, it’s tailor-made to craft the kinds of essays that instructors ask for.
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