Think twice before using ChatGPT for help with homework (2023)

“We need to talk,” Brett Vogelsinger said. A student had just asked for feedback on an essay. One paragraph stood out. Vogelsinger, a 9th-grade English teacher in Doylestown, Pa., realized that the student hadn’t written the piece himself. He had used ChatGPT. It’s a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool. It answers questions. It writes code. And it can generate long essays and stories.

The company OpenAI made ChatGPT available for free at the end of November 2022. Within a week, it had more than a million users. Other tech companies are racing to put out similar tools. Google launched Bard in early February. The AI company Anthropic is testing a new chatbot named Claude. And another AI company, DeepMind, is working on a bot called Sparrow.

ChatGPT marks the beginning of a new wave of AI that will disrupt education. Whether that’s a good or bad thing remains to be seen.

Some people have been using ChatGPT out of curiosity or for entertainment. I asked it to invent a silly excuse for not doing homework in the style of a medieval proclamation. In less than a second, it offered me: “Hark! Thy servant was beset by a horde of mischievous leprechauns, who didst steal mine quill and parchment, rendering me unable to complete mine homework.”

But students can also use it to cheat. When Stanford University’s student-run newspaper polled students at the university, 17 percent said they had used ChatGPT on assignments or exams during the end of 2022. Some admitted to submitting the chatbot’s writing as their own. For now, these students and others are probably getting away with cheating.

And that’s because ChatGPT does an excellent job. “It can outperform a lot of middle-school kids,” Vogelsinger says. He probably wouldn’t have known his student used it — except for one thing. “He copied and pasted the prompt,” says Vogelsinger.

This essay was still a work in progress. So Vogelsinger didn’t see this as cheating. Instead, he saw an opportunity. Now, the student is working with the AI to write that essay. It’s helping the student develop his writing and research skills.

“We’re color-coding,” says Vogelsinger. The parts the student writes are in green. Those parts that ChatGPT writes are in blue. Vogelsinger is helping the student pick and choose only a few sentences from the AI to keep. He’s allowing other students to collaborate with the tool as well. Most aren’t using it regularly, but a few kids really like it. Vogelsinger thinks it has helped them get started and to focus their ideas.

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This story had a happy ending.

But at many schools and universities, educators are struggling with how to handle ChatGPT and other tools like it. In early January, New York City public schools banned ChatGPT on their devices and networks. They were worried about cheating. They also were concerned that the tool’s answers might not be accurate or safe. Many other school systems in the United States and elsewhere have followed suit.

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But some experts suspect that bots like ChatGPT could also be a great help to learners and workers everywhere. Like calculators for math or Google for facts, an AI chatbot makes something that once took time and effort much simpler and faster. With this tool, anyone can generate well-formed sentences and paragraphs — even entire pieces of writing.

How could a tool like this change the way we teach and learn?

The good, the bad and the weird

ChatGPT has wowed its users. “It’s so much more realistic than I thought a robot could be,” says Avani Rao. This high school sophomore lives in California. She hasn’t used the bot to do homework. But for fun, she’s prompted it to say creative or silly things. She asked it to explain addition, for instance, in the voice of an evil villain. Its answer is highly entertaining.

Tools like ChatGPT could help create a more equitable world for people who are trying to work in a second language or who struggle with composing sentences. Students could use ChatGPT like a coach to help improve their writing and grammar. Or it could explain difficult subjects. “It really will tutor you,” says Vogelsinger, who had one student come to him excited that ChatGPT had clearly outlined a concept from science class.

Teachers could use ChatGPT to help create lesson plans or activities — ones personalized to the needs or goals of specific students.

Several podcasts have had ChatGPT as a “guest” on the show. In 2023, two people are going to use an AI-powered chatbot like a lawyer. It will tell them what to say during their appearances in traffic court. The company that developed the bot is paying them to test the new tech. Their vision is a world in which legal help might be free.

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Xiaoming Zhai tested ChatGPT to see if it could write an academic paper. Zhai is an expert in science education at the University of Georgia in Athens. He was impressed with how easy it was to summarize knowledge and generate good writing using the tool. “It’s really amazing,” he says.

All of this sounds great. Still, some really big problems exist.

Most worryingly, ChatGPT and tools like it sometimes gets things very wrong. In an ad for Bard, the chatbot claimed that the James Webb Space Telescope took the very first picture of an exoplanet. That’s false. In a conversation posted on Twitter, ChatGPT said the fastest marine mammal was the peregrine falcon. A falcon, of course, is a bird and doesn’t live in the ocean.

ChatGPT can be “confidently wrong,” says Casey Fiesler. Its text, she notes, can contain “mistakes and bad information.” She is an expert in the ethics of technology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has made multiple TikTok videos about the pitfalls of ChatGPT.

Also, for now, all of the bot’s training data came from before a date in 2021. So its knowledge is out of date.

Finally, ChatGPT does not provide sources for its information. If asked for sources, it will make them up. It’s something Fiesler revealed in another video. Zhai discovered the exact same thing. When he asked ChatGPT for citations, it gave him sources that looked correct. In fact, they were bogus.

Zhai sees the tool as an assistant. He double-checked its information and decided how to structure the paper himself. If you use ChatGPT, be honest about it and verify its information, the experts all say.

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Under the hood

ChatGPT’s mistakes make more sense if you know how it works. “It doesn’t reason. It doesn’t have ideas. It doesn’t have thoughts,” explains Emily M. Bender. She is a computational linguist who works at the University of Washington in Seattle. ChatGPT may sound a lot like a person, but it’s not one. It is an AI model developed using several types of machine learning.

The primary type is a large language model. This type of model learns to predict what words will come next in a sentence or phrase. It does this by churning through vast amounts of text. It places words and phrases into a 3-D map that represents their relationships to each other. Words that tend to appear together, like peanut butter and jelly, end up closer together in this map.

Before ChatGPT, OpenAI had made GPT3. This very large language model came out in 2020. It had trained on text containing an estimated 300 billion words. That text came from the internet and encyclopedias. It also included dialogue transcripts, essays, exams and much more, says Sasha Luccioni. She is a researcher at the company HuggingFace in Montreal, Canada. This company builds AI tools.

OpenAI improved upon GPT3 to create GPT3.5. This time, OpenAI added a new type of machine learning. It’s known as “reinforcement learning with human feedback.” That meanspeoplechecked the AI’s responses.GPT3.5 learned to give more of those types of responses in the future. It also learned not to generate hurtful, biased or inappropriate responses. GPT3.5 essentially became a people-pleaser.

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During ChatGPT’s development, OpenAI added even more safety rules to the model. As a result, the chatbot will refuse to talk about certain sensitive issues or information.But this also raises another issue: Whose values are being programmed into the bot, including what it is — or is not — allowed to talk about?

OpenAI is not offering exact details about how it developed and trained ChatGPT. The company has not released its code or training data. This disappoints Luccioni. “I want to know how it works in order to help make it better,” she says.

When asked to comment on this story, OpenAI provided a statement from an unnamed spokesperson. “We made ChatGPT available as a research preview to learn from real-world use, which we believe is a critical part of developing and deploying capable, safe AI systems,” the statement said. “We are constantly incorporating feedback and lessons learned.” Indeed, some early experimenters got the bot to say biased things about race and gender. OpenAI quickly patched the tool. It no longer responds the same way.

ChatGPT is not a finished product. It’s available for free right now because OpenAI needs data from the real world. The people who are using it right now are their guinea pigs. If you use it, notes Bender, “You are working for OpenAI for free.”

Humans vs robots

How good is ChatGPT at what it does? Catherine Gao is part of one team of researchers that is putting the tool to the test.

At the top of a research article published in a journal is an abstract. It summarizes the author’s findings. Gao’s group gathered 50 real abstracts from research papers in medical journals. Then they asked ChatGPT to generate fake abstracts based on the paper titles. The team asked people who review abstracts as part of their job to identify which were which.

The reviewers mistook roughly one in every three (32 percent) of the AI-generated abstracts as human-generated. “I was surprised by how realistic and convincing the generated abstracts were,” says Gao. She is a doctor and medical researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Ill.

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In another study, Will Yeadon and his colleagues tested whether AI tools could pass a college exam. Yeadon is a physics teacher at Durham University in England. He picked an exam from a course that he teaches. The test asks students to write five short essays about physics and its history. Students who take the test have an average score of 71 percent, which he says is equivalent to an A in the United States.

Yeadon used a close cousin of ChatGPT, called davinci-003. It generated 10 sets of exam answers. Afterward, he and four other teachers graded them using their typical grading standards for students. The AI also scored an average of 71 percent. Unlike the human students, however, it had no very low or very high marks. It consistently wrote well, but not excellently. For students who regularly get bad grades in writing, Yeadon says, this AI “will write a better essay than you.”

These graders knew they were looking at AI work. In a follow-up study, Yeadon plans to use work from the AI and students and not tell the graders whose work they are looking at.

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Cheat-checking with AI

People may not always be able to tell if ChatGPT wrote something or not. Thankfully, other AI tools can help. These tools use machine learning to scan many examples of AI-generated text. After training this way, they can look at new text and tell you whether it was most likely composed by AI or a human.

Most free AI-detection tools were trained on older language models, so they don’t work as well for ChatGPT. Soon after ChatGPT came out, though, one college student spent his holiday break building a free tool to detect its work. It’s called GPTZero.

The company Originality.ai sells access to another up-to-date tool. Founder Jon Gillham says that in a test of 10,000 samples of text composed by GPT3, the tool tagged 94 percent of them correctly. When ChatGPT came out, his team tested a much smaller set of 20 samples that had been created by GPT3.5 and ChatGPT. Here, Gillham says, it correctly identified 97 percent of these as AI-generated.

In addition, OpenAI says they are working on adding “digital watermarks” to AI-generated text. They haven’t said exactly what they mean by this. But Gillham explains one possibility. The AI ranks many different possible words when it is generating text. Say its developers told it to always choose the word ranked in third place rather than first place at specific places in its output. These words would act “like a fingerprint,” says Gillham.

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The future of writing

Tools like ChatGPT are only going to improve with time. As they get better, people will have to adjust to a world in which computers can write for us. We’ve made these sorts of adjustments before. As high-school student Rao points out, Google was once seen as a threat to education because it made it possible to instantly look up any fact. We adapted by coming up with teaching and testing materials that don’t require students to memorize things.

Now that AI can generate essays, stories and code, teachers may once again have to rethink how they teach and test. That might mean preventing students from using AI. They could do this by making students work without access to technology. Or they might invite AI into the writing process, as Vogelsinger is doing. Concludes Rao, “We might have to shift our point of view about what’s cheating and what isn’t.”

Students will still have to learn to write without AI’s help. Kids still learn to do basic math even though they have calculators. Learning how math works helps us learn to think about math problems. In the same way, learning to write helps us learn to think about and express ideas.

Rao thinks that AI will not replace human-generated stories, articles and other texts. Why? She says: “The reason those things exist is not only because we want to read it but because we want to write it.” People will always want to make their voices heard. ChatGPT is a tool that could enhance and support our voices — as long as we use it with care.

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abstract: (in publishing) A short summary of a scientific paper, a poster or a scientist’s talk. Abstracts are useful to determine whether delving into the details of the whole scientific paper will yield the information you seek.

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academic: Relating to school, classes or things taught by teachers in formal institutes of learning (such as a college).

artificial intelligence: A type of knowledge-based decision-making exhibited by machines or computers. The term also refers to the field of study in which scientists try to create machines or computer software capable of intelligent behavior.

bias: The tendency to hold a particular perspective or preference that favors some thing, some group or some choice. Scientists often “blind” subjects to the details of a test (don’t tell them what it is) so that their biases will not affect the results.

bot: (short for web robot) A computer program designed to appear that its actions come from some human. The goal is to have it interact with people or perform automated tasks such as finding and sharing online information through social-media accounts.

citation: A short list of abbreviated details that can help someone find a published or unpublished piece of work, such as a scientific paper, article or video. In scientific papers, citations usually contain 1) the first initials and last names of the scientists who did the experiments (if there are many authors, only the first one or two may show up, followed by et al — meaning “and others”), 2) the full title of the paper or talk, 3) the name of the scientific journal, book or event in which the information has or will be published (and if it’s long, the journal’s name also may be abbreviated) and 4) the date that the research was or will be published. (An example: E.D. Coffel and R.M. Horton. Climate change and the impact of extreme temperatures on aviation. American Meteorological Society annual meeting, Phoenix, January 8, 2015.)

code: (in computing) To use special language to write or revise a program that makes a computer do something. (n.) Code also refers to each of the particular parts of that programming that instructs a computer's operations.

colleague: Someone who works with another; a co-worker or team member.

computational: Adjective referring to some process that relies on a computer’s analyses.

development: (in engineering) The growth or change of something from an idea to a prototype.

ethics: (adj. ethical) A code of conduct for how people interact with others and their environment. To be ethical, people should treat others fairly, avoid cheating or dishonesty in any form and avoid taking or using more than their fair share of resources (which means, to avoid greed). Ethical behavior also would not put others at risk without alerting people to the dangers beforehand and having them choose to accept the potential risks.Experts who work in this field are known as ethicists.

feedback: A response or assessment that follows some a particular act or decision. Or a process or combination of processes that propel or exaggerate a change in some direction. For instance, as the cover of Arctic ice disappears with global warming, less of the sun’s warming energy will be reflected back into space. This will serve to increase the rate of Earth’s warming. That warming might trigger some feedback (like sea-ice melting) that fosters additional warming.

focus: (in behavior) To look or concentrate intently on some particular point or thing.

gender: The attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex. Behavior that is compatible with cultural expectations is referred to as being the norm. Behaviors that are incompatible with these expectations are described as non-conforming.

guinea pig: A rodent (Cavia porcellus) often kept as pets or used in research. Colloquial: A person or other animal that is used as an experimental subject.

high school: A designation for grades nine through 12 in the U.S. system of compulsory public education. High-school graduates may apply to colleges for further, advanced education.

host: (v.) The act of providing a home or environment for something. A website, for instance, could host photos, news or other types of information.

intelligence: The ability to collect and apply knowledge and skills.

internet: An electronic communications network. It allows computers anywhere in the world to link into other networks to find information, download files and share data (including pictures).

journal: (in science) A publication in which scientists share their research findings with experts (and sometimes even the public). Some journals publish papers from all fields of science, technology, engineering and math, while others are specific to a single subject.

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machine learning: A technique in computer science that allows computers to learn from examples or experience. Machine learning is the basis of some forms of artificial intelligence (AI). For instance, a machine-learning system might compare X-rays of lung tissue in people with cancer and then compare these to whether and how long a patient survived after being given a particular treatment. In the future, that AI system might be able to look at a new patient’s lung scans and predict how well they will respond to a treatment.

mammal: A warm-blooded animal distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females for feeding their young, and (typically) the bearing of live young.

marine mammal: Any of many types of mammalsthat spend most of its life in the ocean environment. Theseinclude whales and dolphins, walruses and sea lions, seals and sea otters, manatees and dugongs — even polar bears.

medieval: An adjective referring to the historical period known as the European Middle Ages. It roughly spanned from A.D. 500 to about 1500.

model: A simulation of a real-world event (usually using a computer) that has been developed to predict one or more likely outcomes.Or an individual that is meant to display how something would work in or look on others.

network: A group of interconnected people or things. (v.) The act of connecting with other people who work in a given area or do similar thing (such as artists, business leaders or medical-support groups), often by going to gatherings where such people would be expected, and then chatting them up. (n. networking)

physics: The scientific study of the nature and properties of matter and energy. Classical physics is an explanation of the nature and properties of matter and energy that relies on descriptions such as Newton’s laws of motion. Quantum physics, a field of study that emerged later, is a more accurate way of explaining the motions and behavior of matter. A scientist who works in such areas is known as a physicist.

podcast: A digital audio or video series that can be downloaded from the Internet to your computer or smartphone. Some podcasts also are shows that are broadcast on radio, television or other media.

reinforcement learning: An approach to teaching in which an animal or a person learns to perform a specific task to achieve a desired reward.

robot: A machine that can sense its environment, process information and respond with specific actions. Some robots can act without any human input, while others are guided by a human.

technology: The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry — or the devices, processes and systems that result from those efforts.

Twitter: An online social network that allows users to post messages containing no more than 280 characters. (Until November 2017, the limit had been just 140 characters.)

verify: (n. verification) To demonstrate or confirm in some way that a particular claim or suspicion is true.

watermark: A subtle image imprinted on paper, usually visible only when held in a particular direction or up against light. This centuries-old technology helps establish a document as genuine to thwart counterfeiting. In the 1990s, new “digital watermarks” emerged that superimpose a light image on top of a document or photo (or sound on top of an audio file) to identify the creator.

Citations

Journal:​ ​​C.A. Gao et al. Comparing scientific abstracts generated by ChatGPT to original abstracts using an artificial intelligence output detector, plagiarism detector, and blinded human reviewers. Preprint published online December 27, 2022. doi: 10.1101/2022.12.23.521610.

Journal:X. Zhai.ChatGPT user experience: implications for education. Social Science Research Network. Preprint published online December 27, 2022. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4312418.

Journal:​ ​​W. Yeadon et al. The death of the short-form physics essay in the coming AI revolution. Preprint published online December 2022. doi: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.11661.pdf.

About Kathryn Hulick

Kathryn Hulick is a freelance science writer and the author of Strange But True: 10 of the World's Greatest Mysteries Explained, a book about the science of ghosts, aliens and more. She loves hiking, gardening and robots.

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FAQs

Should you use ChatGPT for homework? ›

There are various risks with using this language model as your homework fairy godmother, so you must act with caution in what you use it for. In our expert opinion, we do not recommend using ChatGPT for homework because the consequences after getting caught could be pretty serious.

Do teachers know if I use ChatGPT? ›

Whether or not universities will know if you have copied code from ChatGPT, is tricky to answer. Technically, code will not be flagged by most plagiarism detectors, so your professors may have some difficulty actually identifying what is AI-generated or not. They may be suspicious, though.

How can we use ChatGPT as a study aid? ›

6 Ways ChatGPT Can Help Students Study Better
  1. Summarizing and paraphrasing long articles. Academic pressure can always get to students. ...
  2. Cultivate new ideas/topics for essays. ...
  3. Summarizing the minutes of classes. ...
  4. Using as a grammar and spelling checker. ...
  5. Writing all academic mails. ...
  6. Getting practice tests for exams.

What can ChatGPT do to students? ›

“ChatGPT teaches students to ask better questions and then defend those questions, which could help them become real scientists.”

Does ChatGPT give the same answers? ›

No, ChatGPT does not give the exact same answer and wording to everyone who asks the same question. While it may generate similar responses for identical or similar queries, it can also produce different responses based on the specific context, phrasing, and quality of input provided by each user.

How many students use ChatGPT to cheat? ›

Over half of college students (51%) believe that using artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT to complete assignments and exams is cheating. Two in ten (20%) disagreed, and the remainder were neutral.

Will I get caught using ChatGPT? ›

The free version of ChatGPT relies on the GPT-3.5 language model, which is easy to catch by most AI detectors. GPT-4, which is currently only available through ChatGPT Plus, is more difficult to detect. Still, many AI detectors can detect GPT-4, so using it to write your assignments isn't foolproof.

Can professors detect AI writing? ›

Teachers can quickly identify instances of AI-generated writing and apply suitable changes by utilizing strategies such as recognizing problems with the content, comparing the current essay to the student's past work, and using AI-detection tools.

Can teachers see incognito? ›

School or company networks: If you use a network run by your school or employer, they can see your browsing history even if you're in incognito mode. Websites you log into: When you're in incognito mode and log into a website like Twitter, you won't be anonymous.

How do I get better at ChatGPT? ›

10 ChatGPT Tips for The Best Results
  1. Be specific on word count and put higher than you need. ...
  2. Don't be afraid to ask it to add more. ...
  3. Understand its limitations. ...
  4. It's better at creating outlines rather than full pieces of content. ...
  5. Make sure your request is clear and concise. ...
  6. You can ask it to reformulate its response.

How can I learn ChatGPT faster? ›

How to Use ChatGPT to Learn Faster
  1. Research consistently proves that the highest achievers love learning. ...
  2. Article summaries. ...
  3. After completing the quiz, simply ask ChatGPT to provide the answers. ...
  4. Turn your notes into a fleshed-out summary. ...
  5. Explain like a five-year-old. ...
  6. Bonus Tip: Generate social media content.
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Can you use ChatGPT to write college essays? ›

College admissions officers are not blind to recent tech developments; therefore, they know very well that some students are using ChatGPT to generate their college essays.

What are the pros and cons of ChatGPT? ›

Pros of Chat GPT include improved natural language understanding, faster response times, and the ability to generate more natural-sounding conversations. Cons of Chat GPT include difficulty training models to respond appropriately to a wide range of topics and potential bias from the data used to train it.

How often does ChatGPT give wrong answers? ›

Very often. It cannot know the correct answer. It just generates text that conforms to what an answer might look like. There was one user who posted two answers contradicting each other.

Is ChatGPT 100 percent correct? ›

According to Originality AI, its detection of ChatGPT-generated text is 99% accurate, and the service also provides a score for the text's originality.

How much does ChatGPT cost? ›

OpenAI's ChatGPT is free to use, and anyone can do so. This free version does come with some drawbacks for now.

Does ChatGPT encourage cheating? ›

Ever since the chatbot ChatGPT launched in November, educators have raised concerns it could facilitate cheating. Some school districts have banned access to the bot, and not without reason. The artificial intelligence tool from the company OpenAI can compose poetry. It can write computer code.

How do I prove I didn't use ChatGPT? ›

Clearly state that you did not use ChatGPT or any other AI tool to complete the assignment. Present your evidence: Share the evidence you have gathered, such as drafts, research materials, and records of collaboration.

How do I know if my student used ChatGPT? ›

Turnitin for detecting Chat GPT.

One of the most effective tools is Turnitin , widely used by educational institutions to detect plagiarism. Turnitin uses a combination of machine learning and human expertise to identify text that chat GPT models have generated.

Can I get expelled for using ChatGPT? ›

While the advanced language model may seem like the perfect solution for writer's block, the consequences of getting caught using Chat GPT can be severe, like getting expelled from college.

How do I not get caught using AI? ›

4 ways to avoid detection
  1. Get the AI to output text less likely to detect.
  2. Use another tool to camouflage the text as AI generated.
  3. Use a tool with a more advanced AI engine.
  4. Mixing human and AI writing.
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What tool is used to not get caught using ChatGPT? ›

SinCode AI is another application that uses a GPT-4 language model that can support your work while you create your writing prompts, essays, and assignments. It is also an undetectable AI tool that can re-spin your content to avoid detection by AI content detectors.

Is ChatGPT zero accurate? ›

How accurate is ZeroGPT? ZeroGPT uses the DeepaAnalyse technology to identify the origin of the input. Currently, its accuracy rate stands at more than 98%, but OpenAI says it is trying to bring down the error rate to less than 1%.

How do you tell if an assignment is written by AI? ›

GLTR is currently the most visual way to predict if casual portions of text have been written with AI. To use GLTR, simply copy and paste a piece of text into the input box and hit "analyze." This tool was built with GPT-2, meaning it won't be as extensively trained as if it were written with GPT-3 or GPT-4 content.

How do professors know if you self plagiarized? ›

Most institutions have an internal database of previously submitted student papers. Turnitin can check for self-plagiarism by comparing your paper against this database. If you've reused parts of an assignment you already submitted, it will flag any similarities as potential plagiarism.

Can my school see what I do on my phone at home? ›

Everyone has a right to their private information, so school administrators cannot view things like text messages, emails, photographs, or other private information that the public does not have access to on a student's phone without consent.

Can teachers see your deleted search history? ›

Can school administrators see deleted history? School administrators can see both deleted and un-deleted history, so you must keep your browser clear of any browsing history. You should also be careful not to store any sensitive information on the school computer or laptop. Better yet, get a VPN for school wifi.

Can my school Wi-Fi see my search history? ›

Yes, schools can see your search history, but they usually won't unless they have a reason to suspect you of something. Most schools have policies that allow them to monitor students' online activity, and they can access your search history if they suspect you of doing something wrong.

How long can a prompt be in ChatGPT? ›

ChatGPT has a prompt limit of 1000 characters. This means that users can input up to 1000 characters to generate a prompt for the AI model to respond to. However, it is important to note that the length of the prompt may affect the quality and relevance of the AI response.

Can ChatGPT fix grammar and spelling? ›

Chat GPT can be a helpful tool for checking grammar. But it cannot replace the expertise of a human editor. It is best used as a supplementary tool to help you catch any minor errors you may have missed. You can use Chat GPT to analyze the patterns in its suggestions.

How do you get long answers on ChatGPT? ›

How to Get Longer Responses From ChatGPT
  1. Ask ChatGPT to Continue: If ChatGPT stops partway through an answer, then one option is to simply ask it to continue. ...
  2. Break your question into smaller sections: For instance, we asked it several times to write an essay on the impact of AI on society.
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Will ChatGPT replace programmers? ›

The short answer is no, ChatGPT will not replace programmers entirely. However, it has the potential to automate some aspects of programming, such as code generation, bug fixing, and documentation. ChatGPT can learn from vast amounts of code and data, making it possible to generate new code similar to existing code.

Is ChatGPT a game changer? ›

ChatGPT is a game changer for a variety of reasons. One of the most significant is its ability to process and understand natural language at an unprecedented level. This makes it an incredibly valuable tool for a wide range of applications, from customer service chatbots to language translation and more.

How long does it take for ChatGPT to write an essay? ›

Folks at Forbes had fun with ChatGPT, asking it to write college admissions essays based on specific background information on two students. Each took about 10 minutes to complete. And the results were fairly decent.

Can you use ChatGPT to write essays without plagiarizing? ›

Can Chat GPT Write Essays That are Plagiarism Free? Yes. ChatGPT uses NLP and machine learning to produce text. It may be used to write essays without plagiarising.

How does ChatGPT affect writing? ›

ChatGPT and its AI powers could help writers and office workers improve their writing quality and decrease the time spent on tasks, cutting out busy work in favor of better, more productive work.

What is the negative about ChatGPT? ›

The Disadvantages of ChatGPT. One of the biggest cons of ChatGPT or any other AI chatbot is that it cannot be used as an authoritative source of information. At the time of writing (April 2023), the technology still relies on content from the internet, as in 2021.

Can ChatGPT plus give longer responses? ›

The answer is yes – getting more extended responses out of ChatGPT isn't impossible. Since ChatGPT is used to writing briefly, it usually answers queries in 2-3 sentences or 1-2 short paragraphs. However, that doesn't mean getting a more extended response is impossible.

What are the cons of ChatGPT in healthcare? ›

One is the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access to sensitive medical information. ChatGPT must be designed with robust security measures, such as encryption, access controls, and user authentication, to protect patient data. Another concern is the potential for bias in ChatGPT algorithms.

Is ChatGPT accurate? ›

Is ChatGPT a credible source? No, ChatGPT is not a credible source of factual information and can't be cited for this purpose in academic writing. While it tries to provide accurate answers, it often gets things wrong because its responses are based on patterns, not facts and data.

What is the controversy with ChatGPT? ›

Meanwhile, OpenAI's flagship product, ChatGPT, is facing controversy in multiple countries over data concerns and claims the AI model has released false information on real individuals.

What are the disadvantages of ChatGPT? ›

The Disadvantages of ChatGPT. One of the biggest cons of ChatGPT or any other AI chatbot is that it cannot be used as an authoritative source of information. At the time of writing (April 2023), the technology still relies on content from the internet, as in 2021.

Is ChatGPT considered cheating? ›

Half of college students are likely already using ChatGPT to cheat, experts have estimated. They warn the revolutionary AI has created a cheating epidemic that poses a huge threat to the integrity of academia.

Is it cheating to use ChatGPT to write essays? ›

Grace Lena, a student at UNC, said the bot's capabilities have made it possible for it to be used for cheating at the collegiate level since the generated answers from the bot can be considered plagiarism for essay questions.

Is expelled worse than suspended? ›

What is the difference between suspension and expulsion? The main difference between suspension and expulsion is the amount of time a student must stay out of school. A suspension can only last for up to ten days. An expulsion can last for up to one calendar year.

Which jobs can ChatGPT replace? ›

Jobs At Risk of Being Replaced by ChatGPT
  • Mathematicians.
  • Interpretators and Translators.
  • Poets, Lyricists, and Creative Writers.
  • Web Designers.
  • News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists.
  • Lawyers and Paralegals.
  • Accountants and Auditors.
  • Teachers.
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Will ChatGPT replace Google? ›

ChatGPT is not replacing Google. OpenAI's chatbot is not designed to act as a search engine. It functions well as a question-answering chatbot and a personal assistant for a variety of tasks. So, if you were hoping to use ChatGPT to find your local bus schedule you may want to think again.

Can ChatGPT replace data scientist? ›

While AI language models like ChatGPT can generate text and perform certain data analysis tasks, they cannot replace the expertise and creativity of a human data scientist. It is very unlikely that ChatGPT or any other AI models can replace data science job completely.

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