Universities like Georgetown are attempting to detect cheating with ChatGPT. They will fail.

Universities like Georgetown are attempting to detect cheating with ChatGPT. They will fail.

ChatGPT is a crisis in the making for professors who teach writing. Their administrations are attempting to cope. Their pathetic efforts will fail. Here’s what Georgetown is telling professors — and why it won’t work Here’s the text of a message from Georgetown University to professors there (posted by a professional friend of mine who…

When is using artificial intelligence to write your student essay cheating?

When is using artificial intelligence to write your student essay cheating?

Artificial intelligence writing software is now good enough to write decent student essays. If a student turns in such an essay, is that cheating? And what are we going to do about it? Aki Peritz wrote about the problem in Slate and Jeff Schatten pondered it in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Both pieces include…