AI, Do My Homework! How ChatGPT Pitted Teachers Against Tech

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"There's so much hype going around" about ChatGPT, "is this and that written by ChatGPT? We as humans deserve to know!" So tweeted Edward Tian a few weeks ago after he created an app that could tell if ChatGPT, an online writing tool recently banned by New York City's education department was actually written by humans.

Tian's GPT Zero app can tell if humans actually wrote an essay or if ChatGPT was trained on millions of words from the internet, the Telegraph reports.

Other AI writing tools have been found to be plagiarism-detectors, but "ChatGPT is an important innovation, but no more so than calculators or text editors," French author and educator Antonio Casilli tells AFP.

"Every time new tools appear, we start to worry about potential abuses, but we have also found ways to use them in our teaching," he says.

"It does not take a huge leap of imagination to see a future where each essay is rammed through an AI-detector, so it does not take a huge leap of imagination to see a future where each essay is rammed through an AI-detector."

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