Global Courant 2023-04-14 14:14:40
Austin, Texas – A majority of students who spoke to Fox News said they knew or had heard of fellow students using ChatGPT for class assignments.
“Unfortunately, yes,” Riley, an economics student, told Fox News.
“I’ve definitely heard a few people use it for certain things,” said Piper, a STEM major.
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Recent developments in artificial intelligence technologies, including ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, have fueled plagiarism concerns in US schools. Teachers are concerned that students may use the chatbots outside of study to help them cheat on schoolwork.
Themis, a Major from Human Dimensions of Organizations, said she heard about it people using AI on social media class assignments.
“I’ve seen people on Tik Tok, but I haven’t seen my friends using it at this point,” the Laredo resident told Fox News.
Carly, a journalism student, said she didn’t know anyone who had used ChatGPT for school assignments.
“I don’t,” she told Fox News.
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Carly said that while she had “seen a lot about it online”, she had never used ChatGPT herself.
“There are a lot of plagiarism issues in AI,” she noted.
Harvard Business School assistant professor Edward McFowland III recently made comparisons between generative artificial intelligence technologies, like ChatGPTand other more established educational tools.
He told Fox News in February that generative AI offers advantages similar to those of a calculator, but at the same time has disadvantages similar to those of Wikipedia, such as extracting sources with varying degrees of accuracy.
Samuel said he had heard of students using ChatGPT to take exams.
“I think most people who use ChatGPT will also use it on part of their exams for essays and things like that,” the science major told Fox News.
The ChatGPT chat screen appears open on a laptop computer. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A computer science student from China was careful to distinguish common use of ChatGPT from plagiarism.
“It’s not for the assignments,” she told Fox News. “It’s just for the help to complete the command, but don’t copy and paste from the ChatGPT.”
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Abhinav, a computer science and business student, said he used ChatGPT to supplement his study regimen.
“If I fell behind on classes, I would actually use it as a learning tool,” the Frisco, Texas, resident told Fox News. “So I just keep asking questions based on what was on the slides.”
“It really prepared me for exams and homework assignments,” said Abhinav.
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