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   Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 03:36:10 JST Nonilex

   In Jan 2023, just 2 months after #OpenAI launched #ChatGPT, a survey of 1,000 #college #students found that nearly 90% of them had used the chatbot to help w/ #homework assignments. In its first year of existence, ChatGPT’s total monthly visits steadily increased month-over-month until June, when #schools let out for the summer. (That wasn’t an anomaly: Traffic dipped again over the summer in 2024.)

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   https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html

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     After spending the better part of the past 2 yrs grading #AI-generated papers, Troy Jollimore, a poet, philosopher, & Cal State Chico #ethics professor, has concerns. “Massive numbers of #students are going to emerge from #university w/degrees, & into the workforce, who are essentially #illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense & in the sense of being historically illiterate & having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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     A philosophy professor across the country at the #University of Arkansas at Little Rock caught students in her #Ethics & #Technology class using #AI to respond to the prompt “Briefly introduce yourself & say what you’re hoping to get out of this class.”

     It isn’t as if #cheating is new. But now, as one student put it, “the ceiling has been blown off.” Who could resist a tool that makes every assignment easier w/seemingly no consequences?

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     “Hours & hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan & do my schoolwork. With #ChatGPT, I can write an essay in 2 hours that normally takes 12,” Sarah said.

     #Teachers have tried #AI-proofing assignments, returning to Blue Books or switching to oral exams. Brian Patrick Green, a #tech #ethics scholar at Santa Clara #University, immediately stopped assigning essays after he tried ChatGPT for the first time.

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     Less than 3 months later, teaching a course called #Ethics & #ArtificialIntelligence, Green figured a low-stakes reading reflection would be safe—surely no one would dare use #ChatGPT to write something personal.

     But one of his #students turned in a reflection w/ robotic language & awkward phrasing that Green knew was #AI-generated.

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 03:36:06 JST Nonilex

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     Sarah continued to use #AI when she started #college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class & not see other students’ laptops open to #ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be #dependent on the website. She already considered herself #addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said.

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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 03:36:07 JST Nonilex

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     Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used #ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (Sarah’s name, like all other current #students in this article, is changed for privacy.) After getting acquainted w/the #chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, & a “hippie farming class”called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.”
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     Nonilex (nonilex@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 03:36:08 JST Nonilex

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     Generative-#AI #chatbots — #ChatGPT but also #Google’s #Gemini, #Anthropic’s #Claude, #Microsoft’s #Copilot, & others — take their notes during class, devise their study guides & practice tests, summarize novels & textbooks, & brainstorm, outline, & draft their essays. #STEM #students are using AI to automate their #research & data #analyses & to sail through dense #coding & debugging assignments.

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     “#College is just how well I can use ChatGPT at this point,” a student in Utah recently captioned a video of herself copy-&-pasting a chapter from her Genocide & Mass Atrocity textbook into #ChatGPT.

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     #Professors & #teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled with clunky, robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn’t sound quite like a #college student — or even a human. 2½ years later, #students at large state #schools, the Ivies, liberal-arts schools in New England, #universities abroad, professional schools, & community colleges are relying on #AI to ease their way through every facet of their #education.

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