1 year, 10 months ago

Don’t Want Students to Rely on ChatGPT? Have Them Use It

When I first caught students attempting to use ChatGPT to write their essays, it felt like an inevitability. I decided to have each student in my religion studies class at Elon University use ChatGPT to generate an essay based on a prompt I gave them and then “grade” it. Many students expressed shock and dismay upon learning the AI could fabricate bogus information, including page numbers for nonexistent books and articles. Teachers could test ChatGPT by asking for a specific argument and prompting the AI to use at least three sources with quotations and a bibliography, then show the results to the class.

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