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This article is avoiding the elephant in the room. From talking to students it is quite clear to me that the main student use case for AI is as a homework assistant. You tell ChatGPT your homework question and ask what's the answer.

In some cases ChatGPT will simply give you the perfect answer and there's nothing more you need to do. In some cases ChatGPT will give you an incomplete answer and you need to finish it up yourself. Often here asking some followup related questions will be quite useful. In some cases ChatGPT will give you a subtly wrong answer and you need to figure that out.

I think the toughest ethical situations arise when ChatGPT can give you a perfect answer to your homework problem. Is it unethical for a student to use ChatGPT in this case? Does superficially rewriting the answer to put it in your own words make it ethical? Is it appropriate for professors to give out A's to the students who cut and paste from GPT4, while giving lower grades to students who don't realize that such a tool is available, or who won't pay $20/month for the best homework tool?

parent lacker 3 years ago

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