AI bot ChatGPT writes smart essays - should professors worry?

By Chris Stokel-Walker. Nature, 2022

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Subfields: Health Informatics, Management Information Systems

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Impact of ChatGPT on learners in a L2 writing practicum: An exploratory investigation (2023, background): “Preliminary research demonstrates the great potential of ChatGPT’s text generation abilities in completing writing tasks (Stokel-Walker, 2022).”
Transformative Effects of ChatGPT on Modern Education: Emerging Era of AI Chatbots (2023, background): “They voiced concerns that since ChatGPT can quickly produce appropriate content, learners may utilise it for outsourcing their assignments [31].”
Comparing scientific abstracts generated by ChatGPT to real abstracts with detectors and blinded human reviewers (2023, neutral): “Articles are bemoaning the death of the traditional school essay assignment 4,6,7 , as ChatGPT has been shown to generate high-scoring papers 8 , correctly answer USMLE questions 9 , and even articulate critical thinking 10 .”
Impact of ChatGPT on ESL students’ academic writing skills: a mixed methods intervention study (2024, background): “Recently, it has been accepted that ChatGPT can make writing easier and faster (Stokel-Walker, 2022).”
Are ChatGPT’s knowledge and interpretation ability comparable to those of medical students in Korea for taking a parasitology examination?: a descriptive study (2023, neutral): “Stokel-Walker [3] also noted that ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that generates intelligent-sounding text in response to user prompts, including homework assignments and exam-style questions, has caused concern.”
ChatGPT in Healthcare: A Taxonomy and Systematic Review (2023, background): “In short, even though the prospect is promising [92, 25, 43, 102], new regulations and substantial improvements are needed before ChatGPT can be safely and widely used for scientific writing, publishing, or medical research in general [105].”
Engineering Education in the Era of ChatGPT: Promise and Pitfalls of Generative AI for Education (2023, background): “ChatGPT has caused significant excitement in the field, as well as some consternation [3] [4].”
The ethics of ChatGPT - Exploring the ethical issues of an emerging technology (2024, background): “This is seen as a significant problem for student assessment, where such assessment is based on essays and the fear is that students can gain unfair advantages (Eke, 2023; Stokel-Walker, 2022; Weale, 2023).”
Provable Robust Watermarking for AI-Generated Text (2023, positive): “However, the ease of using LLMs has raised concerns about their potential misuse [Zellers et al., 2019, Weidinger et al., 2021, Stokel-Walker, 2022].”