AI Hallucinates: Professor fails entire class after ChatGPT falsely tells him students used AI for essay
1 year, 7 months ago

AI Hallucinates: Professor fails entire class after ChatGPT falsely tells him students used AI for essay

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A University of Texas professor tried using ChatGPT to check if his students plagiarised an essay they were assigned. However, ChatGPT hallucinated and told the professor that they essays may have been written by an AI, which made him fail his entire class. Professor falls for hallucinating AI, fails his entire class According to a Reddit thread, an unnamed professor at the University of Texas recently made an appearance on the local news, because of an AI tool. The professor tried to use ChatGPT to check if his students had plagiarised an essay that he had assigned, or if they were honest and had handed in their original work.

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US Universities Implement Innovative Strategies to Combat AI-Assisted Plagiarism
2 months ago

US Universities Implement Innovative Strategies to Combat AI-Assisted Plagiarism

Deccan Chronicle  

US universities are implementing new strategies to prevent AI-assisted plagiarism. These strategies include creating unique, personalized assignments that require students to draw on their own experiences or apply concepts to current events, investing in advanced plagiarism detection tools that incorporate AI to identify AI-generated text, revising honor codes and academic policies to explicitly address the use of AI in assignments, …

ChatGPT answers went 'undetected', secured better grades than students, study finds
5 months, 3 weeks ago

ChatGPT answers went 'undetected', secured better grades than students, study finds

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Exam graders could have trouble spotting answers generated by AI-based chatbots, researchers said after their study found that these answers not only went undetected but were also graded better than those written by students.On behalf of 33 'fake students', the researchers at the University of Reading, UK, submitted answers generated by ChatGPT to the examinations system of the …

AI a new challenge to academic integrity
6 months ago

AI a new challenge to academic integrity

China Daily  

We used to write with a pen. Therefore, AI tools can help students, teachers and researchers to overcome the challenges of academic writing, boost research productivity and improve efficiency. It may That is why many universities have been dissuading students from using AI tools for academic writing, and have implemented rules limiting, if not altogether banning, the use of Generative …

AI scandal rocks academia as nearly 200 studies are found to have been partly generated by ChatGPT
9 months ago

AI scandal rocks academia as nearly 200 studies are found to have been partly generated by ChatGPT

Daily Mail  

Academia was engulfed in scandal this week after research papers across dozens of academic journals were found to have been written by AI. This article, published in the International Journal of New Media Studies, bears the telltale sign of being written by AI: 'As of my last knowledge update.' Bellingcat researcher Kolina Koltai posted a screenshot of one academic paper …

ChatGPT was tipped to cause widespread cheating. Here's what students say happened
1 year, 1 month ago

ChatGPT was tipped to cause widespread cheating. Here's what students say happened

ABC  

As teachers met before the start of the 2023 school year, there was one big topic of conversation: ChatGPT. "While 58 per cent of students report having used generative AI in the past year, only 19 per cent of that group reports using it to write and submit papers," she says. "Students are primarily using generative AI for personal reasons …

AI can write better university assignments than students, report suggests
1 year, 4 months ago

AI can write better university assignments than students, report suggests

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It also found almost three-quarters of students surveyed would use ChatGPT to help with their …

Paper exams, chatbot bans: Colleges seek to ‘ChatGPT-proof’ assignments
1 year, 4 months ago

Paper exams, chatbot bans: Colleges seek to ‘ChatGPT-proof’ assignments

Associated Press  

When philosophy professor Darren Hick came across another case of cheating in his classroom at Furman University last semester, he posted an update to his followers on social media: “Aaaaand, I’ve caught my second ChatGPT plagiarist.” Friends and colleagues responded, some with wide-eyed emojis. Educators say they want to embrace the technology’s potential to teach and learn in new ways, …

A new app aims to thwart AI plagiarism in schools, online media
1 year, 7 months ago

A new app aims to thwart AI plagiarism in schools, online media

LA Times  

Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, has launched an AI text classifier to detect machine-generated content, but it’s far from foolproof. The tool correctly identifies only 26% of AI-written text as “likely AI-written,” while incorrectly labeling human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time. He’s now launching a new program called Origin aimed at “saving journalism,” by distinguishing AI-generated disinformation …

What I tell my college students about using ChatGPT for essays.
1 year, 7 months ago

What I tell my college students about using ChatGPT for essays.

Slate  

The writing sounded like the typical 3 a.m. word-vomit of course concepts—the sentences relaying a superficial understanding at best of what we had done this semester and the argument only vaguely responsive to the prompt. I wasn’t alone, of course: The Atlantic proclaimed the college essay dead; my university created a pop-up class for students and interdisciplinary faculty to explore …

Student copies essay from ChatGPT, teacher says this...
1 year, 8 months ago

Student copies essay from ChatGPT, teacher says this...

Hindustan Times  

Ever since its release, ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, has made waves across the globe. Now, a recent post shows a student using this AI to complete their assignment; however, their teacher quickly realied that the essay had been written from ChatGPT. In a post shared by Twitter user Justine Moore, she shared an image of the assignment. However, while …

ChatGPT-Produced Academic Content Will Get Detected By Several AI Tools: Study
1 year, 8 months ago

ChatGPT-Produced Academic Content Will Get Detected By Several AI Tools: Study

ABP News  

A recent study revealed that ChatGPT, a Large Language Machine that can produce academic-style content, is relatively formulaic and can be detected by many existing AI-detection tools. To produce academic-style content through ChatGPT, the researchers provided a series of prompts and questions, such as "Write an original academic paper, with references, describing the implications of GPT-3 for assessment in higher …

ChatGPT, while exciting for academia and education, produces formulaic text, would be picked up by AI-detection according to this study
1 year, 8 months ago

ChatGPT, while exciting for academia and education, produces formulaic text, would be picked up by AI-detection according to this study

The Hindu  

Academic style content produced by ChatGPT is relatively formulaic and would be picked up by many existing AI-detection tools, despite being more sophisticated than those produced by previous innovations, according to a new study. ChatGPT, a Large Language Machine touted as having the potential to revolutionise research and education, has also prompted concerns across the education sector about academic honesty …

Amid ChatGPT outcry, some teachers are inviting AI to class
1 year, 10 months ago

Amid ChatGPT outcry, some teachers are inviting AI to class

Associated Press  

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the “robot” that was churning out writing assignments. Piercey asked students to “Find the Bot:” Each student summarized a text about boxing champion and Kentucky icon Muhammad Ali, then tried to figure out which was …

University student uses ChatGPT for writing 2,000 word essay; clears exams with passing grades
1 year, 10 months ago

University student uses ChatGPT for writing 2,000 word essay; clears exams with passing grades

Firstpost  

Within two months of its launch, ChatGPT - the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI - has already got the world talking, thanks to its quick skills to respond to any kind of prompt and spit out some proper answers on any topic virtually. This time a grad student got the chatbot into play for writing an essay for his …

ChatGPT maker OpenAI releases tool to identify AI-written text
1 year, 10 months ago

ChatGPT maker OpenAI releases tool to identify AI-written text

The Hindu  

The company that developed the AI chatbot ChatGPT has released a new classification tool in order to help users identify text that was written with AI, but said the classifier was not “fully reliable.” OpenAI explained the abilities and limitations of the new classifier it had trained, in a blog post on January 31. The classifier is meant to address …

Writing your homework using ChatGPT? OpenAI launches new tool that can help detect AI-written text
1 year, 10 months ago

Writing your homework using ChatGPT? OpenAI launches new tool that can help detect AI-written text

India Today  

ChatGPT, an AI tool developed by OpenAI, has amassed over a million users within a month of its launch. The new AI-detection tool is called “The AI Text Classifier”. It is a fine-tuned GPT model that predicts whether a piece of text was generated by AI from a variety of sources, such as ChatGPT.“This classifier is available as a tool …

ChatGPT's creator Open AI launches new tool that detects if text is written by artificial intelligence as schools ban use
1 year, 10 months ago

ChatGPT's creator Open AI launches new tool that detects if text is written by artificial intelligence as schools ban use

ABC  

The maker of ChatGPT has launched a new tool designed to help teachers detect if the text was written by a student or artificial intelligence. Key points: The tool to detect AI-written text "is imperfect and it will be wrong sometimes" ChatGPT has been banned in public schools in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania OpenAI says it …

ChatGPT new feature can distinguish text written by AI
1 year, 10 months ago

ChatGPT new feature can distinguish text written by AI

Live Mint  

OpenAI, which released the viral ChatGPT chatbot last year, unveiled a tool that’s intended to help show if text has been authored by an artificial intelligence program and passed off as human. “While it is impossible to reliably detect all AI-written text, we believe good classifiers can inform mitigations for false claims that AI-generated text was written by a human: …

Cheaters beware: ChatGPT maker releases AI detection tool
1 year, 10 months ago

Cheaters beware: ChatGPT maker releases AI detection tool

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — The maker of ChatGPT is trying to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework. The district is also discussing possibly expanding the use of ChatGPT into classrooms to let teachers use it to train students to be better …

What is ChatGPT and why are schools and universities so worried about students using AI to cheat?
1 year, 11 months ago

What is ChatGPT and why are schools and universities so worried about students using AI to cheat?

ABC  

Type in any prompt or question and you will receive an eloquently worded answer that's accurate. A Queensland Department of Education spokesperson said it had blocked ChatGPT for students on the department's network until it could be fully "assessed for appropriateness". Griffith Institute for Educational Research director Leonie Rowan said ChatGPT also had the potential to improve learning outcomes for …

Essay-writing AI chatbot faces ban by universities fearful of cheating
1 year, 11 months ago

Essay-writing AI chatbot faces ban by universities fearful of cheating

The Telegraph  

Universities are understood to be banning the use of ChatGPT over fears it is being used by students to write essays. “Some universities are already banning the use of ChatGPT but it's going to be very hard to detect whether students are using it, particularly if they write a first draft using it and then rewrite it or check it,” …

AI, do my homework! How ChatGPT pitted teachers against tech
1 year, 11 months ago

AI, do my homework! How ChatGPT pitted teachers against tech

Firstpost  

Alarm among educators has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks over ChatGPT, an easy-to-use AI tool trained on billions of words and data from the web. It can write half-decent essays and answer many common classroom questions, sparking a fierce debate about the very future of traditional education Paris: Know-it-all chatbots landed with a bang last year, convincing one …

New York City school officials block access to controversial artificial intelligence ChatGPT to stop students generating essays
1 year, 11 months ago

New York City school officials block access to controversial artificial intelligence ChatGPT to stop students generating essays

ABC  

Ask the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to write an essay about the cause of the American Civil War and you can watch it churn out a persuasive term paper in a matter of seconds. Key points: Free artificial intelligence ChatGPT can generate readable text on demand, including essays and conversations Its creators, OpenAI, say they're working on "robustness and …

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