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Just to say that we did not actually ‘hoodwink’ anyone! The paper states quite clearly which parts were written by us and which by ChatGPT. But I can see that this makes a better story – and we have enjoyed people’s surprise when they get to the big reveal! @ReubenShipway https://t.co/8shM0nT06K
— Debby Cotton (@ProfDcotton) March 19, 2023
There is literally zero reason to not replace the entirety of academia with ChatGPT.
It is smarter, less weird, and works for free.
An academic paper entitled Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT was published this month in an education journal, describing how artificial intelligence (AI) tools “raise a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in relation to academic honesty and plagiarism”.
What readers – and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication – did not know was that the paper itself had been written by the controversial AI chatbot ChatGPT.
“We wanted to show that ChatGPT is writing at a very high level,” said Prof Debby Cotton, director of academic practice at Plymouth Marjon University, who pretended to be the paper’s lead author. “This is an arms race,” she said. “The technology is improving very fast and it’s going to be difficult for universities to outrun it.”
Cotton, along with two colleagues from Plymouth University who also claimed to be co-authors, tipped off editors of the journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International. But the four academics who peer-reviewed it assumed it was written by these three scholars.
Debby Cotton
For years, universities have been trying to banish the plague of essay mills selling pre-written essays and other academic work to any students trying to cheat the system. But now academics suspect even the essay mills are using ChatGPT, and institutions admit they are racing to catch up with – and catch out – anyone passing off the popular chatbot’s work as their own.
The Observer has spoken to a number of universities that say they are planning to expel students who are caught using the software.
Thomas Lancaster, a computer scientist and expert on contract cheating at Imperial College London, said many universities were “panicking”.
“If all we have in front of us is a written document, it is incredibly tough to prove it has been written by a machine, because the standard of writing is often good,” he said. “The use of English and quality of grammar is often better than from a student.”
They walked straight into that one.
It was kind of obvious someone would do something like this to them.
They’re very stupid and self-righteous people, the university people, and the world will be much better when we totally abolish these institutions and replace them with AI girlfriends.
