The ChatGPT cheating epidemic signals wider moral decline

Chalkie

By Chalkie
Community contribution / January 18, 2023

The cat is out of the bag! Apparently, cheating has reached epidemic proportions in schools and universities and is now so much easier with the availability of viral chatbot software, ChatGPT.

Schools and universities may well need to revert to pen and paper exams in the age of AI.

I tried it and asked this artificially intelligent chatbot to write this Chalkie article. It is up to you to ...

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