Students are using ChatGPT to cheat. That’s a challenge for teachers and school districts.
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🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot from OpenAI, has raised a lot of questions. Like, what could this mean for society? For art? For the future of human jobs? But one thing became immediately clear: Students are going to use it to cheat on their homework. That’s created a market for software that can detect text that was generated by artificial intelligence like ChatGPT. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Stephanie Hughes, Marketplace’s education reporter, about what teachers say the technology means for them.
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| 0:00.0 | Does it take an AI to know an AI? |
| 0:04.6 | From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Megan McCarty-Carrie-No. |
| 0:18.8 | Chat GPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot from OpenAI that's been taking the |
| 0:24.9 | internet by storm, has raised a lot of big questions. |
| 0:28.9 | Like, what could this mean for society, art, or the future of human jobs? |
| 0:34.8 | But one thing was immediately clear, students are going to use it to cheat on their homework. |
| 0:40.4 | That's created a market for software that can detect whether text was generated by artificial |
| 0:46.1 | intelligence, like Chat GPT. |
| 0:49.0 | Marketplace's Stephanie Hughes covers education for us, and she's been talking to teachers |
| 0:53.7 | about what this means for them. |
| 0:55.5 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:56.5 | Nice to talk to you, Megan. |
| 0:58.5 | So when did it dawn on teachers that Chat GPT is going to be a big part of their world? |
| 1:04.4 | Pretty much right away. |
| 1:05.4 | It was immediately clear that it was going to be what the tech world calls a disruption. |
| 1:09.3 | I spoke with one teacher at a public high school in suburban Chicago, and he told me that he |
| 1:13.5 | saw at least eight instances in just a three-day period of student submitting work generated |
| 1:18.0 | by Chat GPT as their own. |
| 1:20.2 | And teachers want students to be writing themselves, obviously, and struggling and learning and |
| 1:23.8 | not delegating that work to a robot. |
| 1:26.2 | I mean, how do they even know when kids are using AI at this point? |
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