The battle against ChatGPT cheating

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Paper exams, chatbot bans: Colleges seek to 'ChatGPT-proof' assignments
By JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press

https://www.nwitimes.com/news/nation-world/education/artificial-intelligence-college-chatgpt/article_fd24033c-8a70-50ac-97ba-6bb5ad77ddb0.html

My grandkids freely admit they have used ChatGPT, not cut-and-paste per se but for generating ideas and sequencing them. In other words, they are still doing the writing, but ChatGPT is doing the creating, the critical thinking.

A couple of thoughts about this:

• I'm concerned that this is just one more thing that will drive students to on-line learning, where undoubtedly the scrutiny will be far less.

• I'm afraid this is another step in the dumbing down of America. As an employer I'm not as interested in what a recent college grad knows as much as their potential to grow intellectually. Are they inquisitive? Can they generate ideas? Can they create and innovate? In other words, can they think critically? This is what drives competitive advantage.