What is your perspective on or experience with AI in education? ChatGPT was released last November. Naturally my students started using it. Around April, turnitin got its AI detection feature and I submitted my students' past assignments to it. Some of them ended up with zero for their course work, and I think at least one got expelled. When they got caught using it, they responded not by writing the next assignment themselves but instead by using more AIs to paraphrase ChatGPT's work. They either got caught again, or ended up with complete gibberish. Funny thing was when some of them totally unironically tried to argue that they shouldn't have gotten a zero because GPTzero didn't detect it as AI-generated even though turnitin did. My school is going to put a firewall on the school WiFi and block these AIs going forward.
People are going to call me a Luddite but I really think these AIs are dangerous in a lot of ways. I don't think it's right to compare ChatGPT to the calculator or the word processor. ChatGPT doesn't create content. It just searches out and paraphrases and summarises what is already on the internet. I think there is a real risk that certain fields might completely stagnate and just put out the same crap over and over again like our friend Phoenix Storm. We also might see some current university students get caught out for having used AI months/years ago. This could lead to an unofficial two-tiered system in education in which degrees earned before November, 2022 have more credence. I'm worried about what might happen if my students use ChatGPT for their IB extended essays, pass the turnitin check, and then fail the check IB uses.
Anyway, what are your thoughts?
