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Generative AI is poised to cause more harm than good in several industries, and education is one of them. With tools like ChatGPT being able to generate entire essays, students are turning to it to cheat. Well, according to Insider, it’s extremely difficult to tell if students are using AI.
OpenAI explains how difficult it is to know if students are using AI
On OpenAI’s website, there’s an FAQ section for educators, and it brings some troubling news. Several months ago, we found out that there are several tools on the market that are meant to tell if something was AI-generated. These tools had trouble identifying AI-generated content; even OpenAI’s own tool had trouble.
Well, it seems that AI technology has progressed to the point where it’s indistinguishable from human-made content. OpenAI’s tool and other tools are unreliable when trying to detect AI content. Not only do they have trouble detecting when something was written by AI, but they also flag human-made writing as being AI-generated.
This means that teachers and professors will need to deal with the possibility that most of the papers that their students turn in will be AI-generated. That, obviously, is a major smack to the face of teachers who put in the time and effort to teach the students.
This could lead to a change in how students are educated
Any teacher in their right mind would have started worrying the moment ChatGPT was launched. The technology has only gotten better as the months passed, and this means that it’s only gotten harder to detect AI-written content.
Ostensibly, there could be a shift in how classes are handled. College courses typically require students to write a large report at the end. However, since students have the ability to generate a report in a matter of minutes, schools might need to steer away from them. They may need to rely on other types of assignments to finish out the year.
Aside from that, we should expect to see schools take other measures to keep students from cheating with AI. Only time will tell.