American Students Cheat On Tests Using ChatGPT, Professor Marks Them 'Fail'?

Students cheating on tests is nothing new for a teacher. Back in the day, students used to bring in chits, write on their hands, and even pass on an answer or two through whispers to a friend, but it seems like these methods have turned stale now. With the introduction of new and smarter devices to aid a child¡¯s cheating investigations, things have gotten rather interesting.

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Students In North Carolina Cheat On A Test With Artificial Intelligence

A college professor from North Carolina recently observed some of his students¡¯ sneaky behaviour. The professor was concerned after he caught some of his students using ChatGPT to pass on the tests. For those who are not tech-savvy, ChatGPT is a relatively new computer software chatbot. The bot can swiftly take in information and give out written information about a variety of topics.

The technologically advanced bot was released by OpenAI and has now been issued to the public for use. In a chat with The New York Post, Professor Darren Hick of the Philosophy Department at Furman University shared that the academia was rather surprised by the modern ways of the students and said , ¡°As soon as I reported this on Facebook, my [academic] friends said, Yeah, I caught one too.¡±

Darren had instructed the class last month to whip out a 500-word essay on two topics. The instructions were to write essays on the 18th-century philosopher David Hume and analyse the paradox of horror, writing about why people get enjoyment out of something that scares them.

The Professor Could Recognise The AI Essays Because Of Their Smart And Clean Method Of Forming The Answer

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After getting the assignment back, the professor looked over the essays and found out that some of them had been written by an AI. The professor noted that ChatGPT¡¯s writing is smart, much like a 12th grader¡¯s.

He then added, "It¡¯s a clean style. But it¡¯s recognizable." The professor mentioned that the AI wrote like a clean slate child who had no voice of its own: "If you were teaching somebody how to write an essay, this is how you tell them to write it before they figure out their own style."

To check his suspicions, the professor plugged the essay into the software made by the makers of ChatGPT, and the software showed a 99.9 percent match with what a computer program would write. Darren even tried ChatGPT on his own and fed it questions that the students might have entered and got a similar essay as that of his students who cheated, though he did not get any identical answers since the program is built to produce somewhat unique answers. Later, when the student was confronted, he confessed to using the software and was marked "fail" in the subject.

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