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So why not make a lesson of it? From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty

Carino.

The chatbots are out of the bag and educators are scrambling to adjust. Chris Howell is an adjunct

assistant professor of religious studies at Elon University and he says as the year progressed,

he noticed more and more suspiciously chatbot-esque pros popping up in student papers.

So rather than trying to police the tech, he embraced it. He assigned students to generate an essay

entirely with chat GPT and then critique it themselves. The idea was they would generate an essay

based on a prompt. They would grade the essay kind of like they were the professor and so they

would have to leave five comments or more on the word doc. And then I had a series of questions

about did this fabricate any sources? If it did, how did you find them? Did it use any sources

that were real but incorrectly? To try to understand the way that this thing works, I figured

that there would be a likelihood that most of the essays would at least have some problem,

but I didn't think all 63 would have confabulated info. That surprised me too. I mean,

maybe I should have expected it because they're all using the same prompt, but I did use it.

And his students, it turned out, were pretty tough graders. I failed the assignment.

I didn't have it in my heart to fail. I gave him a D cal Baker and Ferra Stelianopolis are

rising sophomores at Elon University and found the assignment eye opening. I could tell that

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