CNN’s Samantha Murphy Kelly wrote a great article, “This AI chatbot is dominating social media with its frighteningly good essays.” In the article she highlight’s Open AI’s recent release of a public-friendly language-bot, ChatGPT.
But Kelly is not the only one interested in this evolution, the accesibility, and what it means in a broader sense as well:
- The Atlantic has a piece from Stephen Marche – The College Essay is Dead
- CBS’s John Dickerson interviewed Kyle Wiggers of TechCrunch – Promise & Fear of Artificial Bot “ChatGPT”
- Robert Reich, Stanford, wrote for The Guardian – Now AI can write students’ essays for them, will everyone become a cheat?
What do I mean by “lanuguage bot”? Well, you can give ChatGPT the premise of what you want it to write, and it will do so. Like, you can tell it to write about the life of Shakespeare in 500 words… sound familiar?
I wanted to give it a try and got this result:
And to be clear, there is nothing wrong with ghostwriting or with using an AI to write – the issue comes down to what does the instructor want? And beyond Academia, what does the public want?
I think the public has already spoken – we have no issue with contracting help in many endeavors. But when it comes to a project where a person says, “I did this,” we have the expectation they did the mental and physical work to bring the product to life.
Auth+ is a tool that uses AI, like the ChatGPT bot, taking the first read for the instructor, question the student, and encourages follow-up with the student, as needed.
Auth+ is ready to help identify students using AI or human ghostwriters.