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Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests
ChatGPT did not increase the frequency of cheating in high schools, according to new research by Victor R. Lee and Denise Pope at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
Credit: Carolyn Fong/The New York Times
Last December, as high school and college students began trying out a new A.I. chatbot called ChatGPT to manufacture writing assignments, fears of mass cheating spread across the United States.
To hinder bot-enabled plagiarism, some large public schools districts — including those in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City — quickly blocked ChatGPT on school-issued laptops and school Wi-Fi.
But the alarm may have been overblown — at least in high schools.
According to new research from Stanford University, the popularization of A.I. chatbots has not boosted overall cheating rates in schools. In surveys this year of more than 40 U.S. high schools, some 60 to 70 percent of students said they had recently engaged in cheating — about the same percent as in previous years, Stanford education researchers said.
From The New York Times
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