Have you ever sat down to write a paper, and…nothing? Well, students nowadays aren't even sweating it.
New A.I. language-generation technologies are making it easier than ever to produce high-quality essays with the click of a button. Founder and CEO of Christian Union Matt Bennett joins Marc Cox to discuss what universities need to do to combat this new advancement.
For years, universities have used plagiarism prevention tools to help educators check the originality of submitted assignments. But papers written by A.I. are undetectable on those sites.
“Since [A.I.] is creating words and sentences of its own accord, then you can't [use plagiarism prevention tools]. So detecting it is going to be very difficult,” Bennett said.
ChatGPT is among the many A.I. research and deployment companies taking on the language task. And because of how advanced the software is, it’s often hard to distinguish human-written text from A.I.-written text.
“It's really very good,” Bennett said. “It can write in the style of different people…and on different subjects or whatever you like. It's not limitless, of course, but still it's really amazing.”
While it’s important that parents and teachers know about these new tools, its undetectable nature means there’s not much they can do about it. Bennett stresses the importance of teaching ethics.
“We can't have it be such that we only do the right thing if we feel like someone's going to catch us. That leads to a really bad community and society. So I think it really elevates the need to teach ethics all the more. And that means in churches or even in schools in some ways.”
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