Cristina Criddle and Andrew Jack:
More than a quarter of prompts by college-age users in the US put into ChatGPT, the world’s most popular large language model (LLM), are for educational purposes, according to internal research from OpenAI, the product’s maker.
Chatbots can be a helpful research tool. But some students are using the technology to do their work for them, educators say. Plagiarism is one of the top concerns raised in a survey of members of the Digital Education Council, a global network of universities. Other issues were ethical concerns, the devaluation of degrees and the complexity of integrating AI into existing data and tech systems.
Some students are also becoming more crafty, using complementary software such as word spinners — which change the order, or nature, of words — to help them evade plagiarism or AI detectors.