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What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?


Chatbots have been criticized as perfect plagiarism tools. The truth is more surprising.

A columnist in The Spectator asked, “How can you send students home with essay assignments when, between puffs of quasi-legal weed, they can tell their laptop: ‘Hey, ChatGPT, write a good 1,000-word paper comparing the themes of Fleabag and Macbeth ’—and two seconds later, voila?” But, for longer and more complex assignments, such as Chris’s graduate-school paper on perspectivism, teachers seem to be discovering, to their relief, that “load sharing” with ChatGPT—though it is a new and unfamiliar technique—still requires students to think carefully and write clearly. “In the end, the true value of tools like ChatGPT lies not in making academic work easier, but in empowering students to engage more deeply with their ideas and express them with greater confidence,” the chatbot suggested.

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