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US teachers worried Fear of students using ChatGPT to cheat on writing homework essays

CNN reported yesterday (January 19) that a group of teachers in the United States joined together to discuss how to change the structure of the instruction and student assignments. To prevent the use of ChatGPT to cheat when writing a homework essay.

CNN news agency It was reported yesterday (January 19) that a group of teachers in the United States are joining a Facebook group discussion to exchange opinions and advice on how to change the teaching and learning structure and direct student-student assignments. To prevent the use of ChatGPT to cheat when writing a homework essay.

This comes after ChatGPT went viral for its ability to answer questions ranging from simple questions like “Who is the 25th president of the United States?” “What political developments led to the fall of the Roman Empire?” ChatGPT can write an essay on the topic in seconds.

Kristen Asplin, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh One of the instructors in the said Facebook group revealed that he decided to change the method of ordering work by allowing students to submit their writings gradually for review step by step until the end of the process Instead of send completed tasks all at once, this is easily done through ChatGPT.

“I will monitor more early in the writing process so I can see all the progress on my student work. This will help students become more confident in their writing. To reduce the chance that they will not despair until they have to resort to cheating methods. It will also allow me to see their workflow at the same time, so students can’t just type commands into the program and have the computer do it for them,” says Professor Asplin.

In the weeks after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, which trains through large amounts of online data to produce responses, The program has also been used to write articles, despite the fact that there are many points of information wrong, as well as being able to compose songs according to the style of many artists. and draft research summaries good enough to fool some scientists.

Although many see the program as novel, the long-term effects are unknown. But many schools and teachers are concerned about the effect of homework cheating on students. such as the Facebook group that Prof. Asplin joins which has increased to 800 members within a few weeks.