Half of students are using ChatGPT to cheat, and it could rise to 90% trends now

Half of students are using ChatGPT to cheat, and it could rise to 90% trends now
Half of students are using ChatGPT to cheat, and it could rise to 90% trends now

Half of students are using ChatGPT to cheat, and it could rise to 90% trends now

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.

Rehan Haque, of artificial intelligence company Metatalent.ai, said: 'We're already at the point where AI can write entire projects, and then a different AI tool can reword it to make AI undetectable.

'At present, well over half of students are likely using AI tools to cheat the education system in exams or essays, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that number were already higher.'

Could educators resort to written tests to deal with AI cheating?

He added: 'If educators make the mistake of ignoring the threat of AI-based cheating, I can honestly see more than 90 percent of students cheating in this way [in future].'

OpenAI's new GPT-4 update (GPT-3 and GPT-4 are the models which underlie ChatGPT) is able to get 90 percent on a huge number of exams, including the American bar exam.

The AI bot is also capable of writing human-like essays on any subject in seconds, in response to simple text prompts.

Creator OpenAI is working on a tool to detect AI-written content, but warns it's not 100 percent accurate.  

A survey by Study.com of 203 teachers found that 26 percent of K-12 teachers had already caught at least one student cheating using the software.

South Texas College of Law Houston law professor Josh Blackman wrote: 'This technology should strike fear in all academics.'

The Los Angeles Unified School District, Seattle Public Schools, the New York Department of Education and Oakland Unified are among the American school boards which have banned or blocked the use of ChatGPT.

At university level, New York's Yeshiva College updated its cheating policy to include 'something/someone else's language' so that cheating via ChatGPT was banned.

Haque says that educators may resort to 'technological regression' as a temporary measure to battle AI cheating.

He said: 'This might even mean returning to the old-fashioned way of writing everything down. But, even then — what stops a student from copying an AI-produced essay off a screen?'

Rehan Haque of Metatalent.ai believes the problem is widespread - and will get worse

Narmeen Makhani, executive director of the ETS AI Labs

Rehan Haque of Metatalent.ai believes the problem is widespread - and will get

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