Cheating With ChatGPT: Can OpenAI’s Chatbot Pass AP Lit? | WSJ

Back to school, back to school, to prove AI is no fool…

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new artificially intelligent chatbot, can write essays on complex topics. WSJ’s Joanna Stern went back to high school AP Literature for a day to see if she could pass the class using just AI. Photo illustration: Elena Scotti

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[johnnyvishnevskiy]

It only takes a few years for A.I, especially language models, to exponentially improve upon itself. This is only going to get better. This demo is free because it is being used to gain feedback from real people in order to make a better model later.

[slentmusicx]

Just use a rephraser after the ai has wrote it out so now it is 100% undetectable

[luuketaylor]

ESL teacher here who has been playing around with ChatGPT for the last week incessantly. Fully agree with this teacher's viewpoint on understanding the tech and not running from it, because this is absolutely part of our lives now. Also, I hope to be a teacher as eloquent as him.

[kyleolson]

If I was a student today, I wouldn't just submit a ChatGPT essay. But I sure might start my essay with one produced by the AI. Seems like it would provide me the core of my paper, and then I would edit it. I imagine it would shave off half my time at least in doing homework.

Funny thing is, for someone like me who rarely did homework, I might have learned more cheating with ChatGPT than I would have just skipping assignments. Then again I likely would have been too lazy to even cheat.

[scikick]

Just the fact that the professor is aware of your experiment nullifies it.

[jacksondavis]

This is not a fair assessment. The AI essay should be in between other students essay so the teacher isn’t aware of when he’s grading the chatGPT response. Additionally, when you ask chatGPT follow up questions it writes better essays. So ultimately I don’t think this was a fair assessment at all and seemed a little biased especially when you consider that it somewhat replaces/augments what the person in the video does (writer).

[Blake_]

For the Text Jesus's Son
A better approach would have been to extract the text from the book, copy and past it into ChatGPT
The AI now knows everything it needs to know about the subject matter, then you can ask away anything you want.


OpenAI stopped training ChatGPT in 2021, so there is a lot of information the AI doesn't have access to or know.
To get a more sophisticated response from ChatGPT, feed the AI (Copy and paste) with all the information you can find on the subject matter before you ask your main question, you'll see a massive difference in the quality of the response

[ideatorx]

ChatGPT wrote some of my final 4th year university essays. B+

[duudleDreamz]

This didn't test CatGPT, but made it clear the user's lack of understanding how to correctly prompt ChatGPT

[Humanist]

As always, informative and entertaining.

[anthonyphan]

Remember this AI is only realeased to the public about 3 weeks. Imagine what it can do in 5 years, 10 years.

[In_soi]

Using ChatGPT and combining it with other AI is the most powerful thing. It would honestly take decades until websites can detect AI text if they keep evolving. Also chatGPT doesn't know stuff that happened 2021, so that might be why chatGPT couldn't do good on the book.

[frankdaniel]

Chat GPT is amazing when you want to rewrite something you’ve written. If u wrote a weak argument that’s where the AI would shine the most in improving your work

[DanielSeacrest]

I'm an 11th grade student and it can do my school work decently, but not super well. However it is absolutely amazing for generating ideas for essays and the like, so I definitely think i will be using it to help me in that front.

[Kyle-gqtk]

Wow, what a great teacher! I wish I had more teachers like him when i was in school.

[AlanaDelGrace]

This video was an interesting watch! My friends and I were discussing the issue of plagiarism and schoolwork with chatgpt last week - plus it was cool to see my old AP lit teacher in the video too. Mr. Diamond is the best!

[jaydibernardo]

Joanna Stren is my favorite tech reporter. I learn & laugh at the same time. The last scene was hilarious, asking students to be her friend while wearing a letterman jacket. The food on her plate looked gross too so this made it even more realistic.

[kalechips]

One thing I learned is that if you feed it the rubric on which the essay is being graded then ask it to grade it's own essay it tends to correct itself a lot of the time.

[JpsBookOfLife]

This type of technology is relatively new. Give it a few years; it would knock this experiment out of the park.

[Doug-muev]

Delightful piece. Seen similar concerns with AI in the art space and what seems to becoming clear is that this tech will no more replace the artist/writer than those other real people at the real table with the journalist. It can be used to give feedback, to provide different perspectives, even inspire but what you contribute through your own unique perspective cannot be replicated or replaced. On the topic of anti-cheat, it seems like the best solution for the writing space is to have a program that is trained on the specific person’s past writing to detect inconsistencies of style, reference, and vocabulary.