The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      125·
      1 year ago

      AI was never about making our lives easier. It’s been a corporate tool out of the gate.

      But this kind of thing really should be handled by Washington, and maybe it would be if we had a functional Congress. Make it illegal for AI companies to sell their services to people for the purpose of cheating or impersonation.

      • Neve8028@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Make it illegal for AI companies to sell their services to people for the purpose of cheating or impersonation.

        How would that work? How do you know someone is cheating? AI can be a great studying tool and those same functions could be considered cheating based on the context that the user is using them in. There’s no way to tell what the user’s intent is.