Experts estimate that half of college students are already using ChatGPT to cheat.
They warn that revolutionary artificial intelligence has created a cheating epidemic that poses a major threat to the safety of academia.
“We are already at the stage where an AI can write entire projects, and then another AI tool can rewrite it to make the AI undetectable,” said Rehan Haq, of AI firm Metatalent.ai.
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“If educators make the mistake of ignoring the threat of AI-based cheating, I can honestly see over 90 percent of students cheating this way (in the future),” he added.
OpenAI’s new GPT-4 update (GPT-3 and GPT-4 are the base forms for ChatGPT) is able to score 90 percent on a large number of exams, including the American Bar Exam.
The automated bot is also capable of writing human-like articles on any topic in seconds, in response to simple text prompts.
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A Study.com survey of 203 teachers found that 26 percent of K-12 teachers had already detected at least one student cheating using the software.
“This technology should strike fear in all academics,” wrote Josh Blackman, a law professor at Texas Southern College of Law in Houston.
The Los Angeles Unified School District, Seattle Public Schools, New York Department of Education, and Oakland Unified are among the US school boards that have banned or banned the use of ChatGPT.
At the undergraduate level, Yeshiva College in New York updated its cheating policy to include “the language of something/someone else” so cheating via ChatGPT was banned.
Haque says teachers may turn to “technological regression” as a temporary measure to fight AI cheating.
“It might even mean going back to the old way of writing everything down,” he said. But, until then – what’s to stop a student from copying an AI-produced article from the screen? ‘
Rehan Haque of Metatalent.ai believes the problem is widespread and will only get worse. Nermeen Makhani, Executive Director of the ETS Artificial Intelligence Labs
Haque believes AI detection software will evolve, but educators need to step up to using AI in the classroom — rather than ban it.
Research conducted by GoStudent found that 59 percent of young people would like to see advanced technology such as artificial intelligence in the school curriculum.
“To be fair to students,” Haq said, “if education systems fail to adapt to technology that Bill Gates recently described as ‘the most revolutionary technology in decades’, they cannot be held exclusively responsible.”
“Instead, teachers, examiners and educators need to realize that technology is changing, and they need to move with it.”
AI has positive uses within the classroom, agrees Narmin Makhani, CEO of ETS AI Labs, which makes tools that can detect AI cheating.
“Generative AI is also used for good purposes such as the development of learning,” she said. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT help learners create text and summarize information that can help them with school work more efficiently.
Makhani said scientists in her lab are working on strategies to detect AI — including analyzing keystrokes to identify people editing AI-generated articles.
She said there were donations signs that the articles were generated by AI rather than a human.
She said, “Although it is very difficult for humans to detect AI-generated text, generative AI detection tools look for subtle patterns such as simple repeated words or the absence of any inconsistencies to discover typical patterns of AI-generated text.” artificial.
In addition, AI models tend to write consistent sentences rather than humans who usually type in batches. AI detection models also look for whether a piece of text “appears” to be random or messy compared to text that appears uncluttered or less “mysterious” and is more likely to have been generated by AI.
Makhani says no tool can accurately detect AI-generated text 100 percent of the time, but she and her team will continue to investigate how to spot cheaters.
She says technology offers teachers a way to free the education system from focusing on memorizing facts and restricting large amounts of text.
Makhani says, “Teachers have an opportunity to use AI tools to augment learning and improve assessments to enable them to rely less on rote memorization and text generation, but instead on requiring learners to demonstrate their understanding of concepts and their ability to analyze information.
She also believes that AI tools like ChatGPT will be useful in the classroom – and in teaching students skills that will be useful in the workplace of the future.
“They can also enable students to leverage AI tools to evaluate AI outputs to support and demonstrate high-level skills,” said Makhani. Generative AI tools can help educators quickly create personalized content that is socially and culturally relevant to their students and can help motivate and assess learners in new ways.
