The perils of GenAI student submissions
Generative AI (GenAI) systems, such as ChatGPT, can help students as their personal tutor, by allowing them to study what interests them, by providing in depth explanations to topics they didn’t quite understand, by assessing their work and problems with it, and by providing shortcuts to parts of their work that aren’t directly relevant to what they want to learn. However, students sometimes misuse GenAI to derive answers for work they were supposed to conduct on their own as part of their learning, or accept its answers uncritically. For the first type of misuse part of the blame occasionally also lies with educators for giving out-of-class assignments that GenAI can perform with ease. For the second type of misuse students must learn to avoid using unverified GenAI output. Needless to say that in both cases the misuse of AI may also constitute academic fraud and violate their university’s code of conduct. Here is my take on the practicalities of the two cases.
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