CHATGPT IN THE CLASSROOM: CHEATING THE FUTURE OR FUTURE OF CHEATING
Are you tired of hearing about ChatGPT and how it's ruining academic integrity? Well, fear not, dear reader, because I have a solution that will make you laugh and forget about all those pesky cheating scandals.
First off, let's address the elephant in the room: Did Susy become a genius overnight or did she cheat with ChatGPT? The answer is simple: who cares? As long as Susy is learning and growing, does it really matter how she got there? Plus, have you seen some of the ridiculous essays that come out of ChatGPT? I'm pretty sure Susy could do better on her own.
But for all you teachers out there who are worried about cheating, I've compiled a list of hilarious ways to prevent it.
1. Have your students write their essays in crayon. That way, if they try to copy and paste from ChatGPT, it'll be obvious when the font suddenly changes to "scribble."
2. Make your essay prompts completely nonsensical. For example: "Write a 500-word essay on the existential crisis of a potato." I guarantee you no AI platform will be able to generate a coherent response to that.
3. Use reverse psychology. Tell your students that they're not allowed to use ChatGPT, but don't actually monitor them. They'll be so paranoid about getting caught that they won't even think about cheating.
4. Have a "ChatGPT Day" where everyone is allowed to use the platform for their essays. Then, have a class discussion about how terrible the essays turned out and how much better everyone's writing is without AI.
5. Hire a comedian to give a lecture on the dangers of cheating with ChatGPT. Make it so funny that your students will never want to touch the platform again.
Now, if you're still worried about cheating, there are some more serious strategies you can use.
One option is to monitor student activity to detect any suspicious behavior, such as using AI platforms. But let's be real, who has time for that?
Another option is to incorporate anti-plagiarism tools, which can detect any assignments that have been copied from an AI platform. Some of these tools include:
Some of the anti-plagiarism tools that can detect ChatGPT are:
- - GPT-2 Output Detector by OpenAI: This is a tool developed by the same company that created ChatGPT. It predicts how likely it is that a text has been written by a human or an AI¹.
- - Writer AI Content Detector and Content at Scale: These are two tools that allow users to enter a URL or a text and get a percentage score of how likely it is that the content is human-generated¹².
- - GPTZero: This is a tool created by a Princeton University student that measures the randomness of a text using two metrics: perplexity and burstiness. The lower the numbers, the greater the possibility that the text was created by a bot¹³.
- - Giant Language Model Test Room (GLTR): This is a tool developed by researchers from MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and Harvard Natural Language Processing Group that highlights words in different colors based on how predictable they are. The more purple and red words, the more likely the text was generated by an AI¹⁴.
- - Copyleaks AI Content Detector: This is a tool that uses natural language processing and machine learning to detect any instances of AI-generated content in academic papers, blogs, websites, and more².
- - GPTRadar: This is a tool that uses deep learning to analyze the linguistic patterns and features of a text to determine if it was written by a human or an AI⁵.
- - Winston AI: This is a tool that uses neural networks to compare a text with millions of online sources to detect any signs of plagiarism or AI-generated content.
- - CopyScape: This is a tool that checks if a text matches any other online content, including those generated by AI platforms like ChatGPT.
- - Plagibot: This is a tool that uses natural language understanding and semantic analysis to detect any plagiarism or AI-generated content in a text.
Or, you could just provide original and challenging assignments that cannot be easily completed with the help of technology. That way, your students will actually have to think for themselves and learn something in the process.
In all seriousness though, cheating is a serious issue and we should do what we can to prevent it. But let's not forget to have a little fun along the way. And who knows, maybe one day ChatGPT will become so advanced that it can actually write funny articles like this one. But until then, let's just stick to good old-fashioned human humor.
Bing, 6/18/2023
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