Colleges grapple with AI-generated college admissions essays

With college admission season on the horizon, some students may look to using artificial intelligence tools like ChatGTP to write their college admissions essays — and that's sparking a growing debate. NBC’s Savannah Sellers reports for TODAY.

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[somsauntie]

I feel like colleges will bring back the interview process if students keep using the ai to write essays. Like making ridiculous claims, or, worse, having a timmed essay like the SAT/ACT in place.

Equally for the "calculator debate", i wasnt able to use a calculator in my calculus class (the professor wouldnt let us, but the other class a different professor, did), and i failed becasue i couldnt use the calculator and show the math in the way i understood it. She let us use them during class but not for the exams bc she didnt want us storing info on it.

[SeanDrinks]

It's interesting because I would have written a line just like she read.. from AI. So not fair that i'm not being unprofessional?.. such an unfair bias if that's really that ladys conclusion on how to handle the application process. She was granted a position. Who is she to have a negative impact on someones life because it sounded too good.

[jodishapiro]

Doesn’t she know you don’t write an application essay about mental health issues?

[TimothyandEmmaSwepston]

Khan is right. It democratizes the process.

[kriskay]

Then the’ll just edit what it wrote for them. That’s still cheating

[holyngrace]

There is NO grey area. Plagiarism rules are tight and have been around for ages. Whether you copy from a textbook, encyclopedia, documentary, essay-writer, or a Large Language Model. Simple.

[brytonkalyi]

° I believe we are meant to be like Jesus in our hearts and not in our flesh. AI is just our flesh and that is it. It knows only things of the flesh (our fleshly desires) and cannot comprehend things of the spirit such as peace of heart. Whereas we are a spirit and we have a soul but live in the body (in the flesh). When you go to bed it is your flesh that sleeps but your spirit never sleeps (otherwise you have died) that is why you have dreams. More so, true love that endures/last is a thing of the heart (when I say 'heart', I mean 'spirit'). But fake love, pretentious love, love with expectations, love for classic reasons, love for material reasons and love for selfish reasons that is a thing of our flesh. In the beginning God said let us make man in our own image, according to our likeness. Take note, God is Spirit and God is Love. As Love He is the source of it. We also know that God is Omnipotent, for He creates out of nothing and He has no beginning and has no end. That means, our love is but a shadow of God's Love. True love looks around to see who is in need of your help, your smile, your possessions, your money, your strength, your quality time. Love forgives and forgets. Love wants for others what it wants for itself. Take note, love works in conjunction with other spiritual forces such as faith and patience. We should let the Word of God be the standard of our lives not AI. If not, God we let us face AI on our own and it will enslave us and make us worship it. We can only destroy ourselves but with God all things are possible. God knows us better because He is our Creater and He knows our beginning and our end. Our prove text is from the book of Daniel 7-9, Revelation 13-15, Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21. So, let us watch and pray.

[CaliTcity]

I am currently in medical school and chatgpt has been my best friend.