Schools Come Up With Groundbreaking New Method To Stop Students From Using ChatGPT On Their Essays

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | Contact

In some much needed good news, schools and universities have finally come up with a groundbreaking solution to stop students from using ChatGPT to write their essays, after a tumultuous few years of the software decimating the education sector.

Since its launch in 2022, artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been a constant source of frustration for teachers worldwide, who have quickly learnt how to pick up on the telltale signs an essay has been written by a computer.

AI detection software, such as Turniton, which operates by detecting patterns in writing, has unfortunately failed to accurately provide 100% accuracy and is even known to give false positives, rendering it useless..

Due to the rapidly shifting rate that conversation models are evolving, variables in user prompts, and the fact that language models are heavily funded in comparison to detection software, it’s unlikely these sorts of tools will ever be able to provide 100% accuracy.

It’s alleged up to 80% of students are using ChatGPT in some form.

However, a teacher from Betoota Heights believes he may have found a genius, cost effective solution to stopping students from using the software.

It’s called a pen and paper.

“I get the students to check out books from the library and make them write all their essays and assignments in class”, says Ben Langford, a high school teacher at Whooton School for boys.

“Can’t use ChatGPT if you don’t have a laptop.”

More to come.