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i’m sure this has been discussed extensively on this sub (and i hope this is the correct sub for this question) but how do you guys deal with students who clearly use chat gpt or some other kind of AI software for assignments (specifically papers)? just received a paper written entirely by chat gpt. my student didn’t even bother to delete the little introduction that chat gpt writes in response to the question. is this a serious issue? is this something that needs to be escalated? or is this just the future of assignments and papers?
There's a discussion around LLM/ChatGPT for programming courses. There are valuable nuggets from there you can adapt for essays.
You are on the right track, or rather, I'm in agreement with your approach of teach them to work with it as a tool.
In drafting a policy for conversational AI/LLM, I see engaging them more of learning scaffolding.
Students must disclose their use and how they are used. Students must take ownership and must show their creativity.
What we can and should do is getting the students on the path of purposive engagement as assistive tools, leveraging them for their critical appraisal and thinking.
Inbtw, there're tools that detect text/essays written by conversational AI. Openai, the ChatGPT 'creator', has one: AI Text Classifier
I'm a lowly PhD student who's not yet formally taught a class, but here's my initial reaction: Chat GPT can be used for coding/data cleaning purposes (when necessary), and it can also be fine for spell checking. However, where I sort of would draw the line is them formally using it to write the paper. The paper should be the student's work, not Chat GPTs work.
I don't know how to check if chat GPT's been used, but that's my view on it. As someone who writes code for statistics purposes, GPT can be quite useful for a variety of problems (not that I've used it). But, it should not (nor should we expect it to) replace the human analysts, and that philosophy matters in the classroom too. In other words, it can be used as an awesome supplement to one's work-- never as a substitute. So, I think your idea is just fine, so long as you can check to see if it was used and how. The main thing to be concerned about, I think, is how to know if someone actually did use it, but did not disclose it. I'm sure people who have worked with it would have a better idea than I would.