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Teacher caught students using ChatGPT on their first assignment. Debate ensues
The philosophy students "all owned up to it, to their credit," said the professor, who was surprised they would use AI for such a basic assignment.
When Fritts, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, shared the experience on X, formerly Twitter, in a post that has now garnered 3.5 million views, some replies argued that students would obviously combat " busywork" assignments with similarly low-effort, AI-generated answers. Curby Alexander, an associate education professor at Texas Christian University, previously told BI that he uses AI to help brainstorm ideas and develop case studies "without taking up a lot of class time." Arizona State University's Anna Cunningham, a dean's fellow, and Joel Nishimura, an associate professor in the mathematical and natural sciences department, wrote an op-ed encouraging having students teach ChatGPT agents with programmed misunderstandings.
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