Posted on 02/17/2023 11:23:39 AM PST by Red Badger
Students in a Florida high school’s elite academic program have been accused of using ChatGPT and artificial intelligence to write their essays, according to a report.
The head of Cape Coral High School’s prestigious International Baccalaureate Program (IB) flagged the suspected misconduct to staff in a flurry of internal emails that were later obtained by a local NBC affiliate.
“There have been some IB papers that are questionable in a few ways,” the staffer wrote this month in one message. “Including being very different styles of writing from previously submitted papers.”
In another internal email, she wrote how several students admitted to using ChatGPT — a newly introduced chatbot that can give detailed and thoroughly researched answers to detailed questions using the information it scrapes from the internet — or another AI program to author work they were submitting as their own.
“I have already had a few come forward to me and we are working through it,” she wrote.
Elsewhere, the coordinator said she intended to confront suspected cheaters who don’t admit wrongdoing.
Those who don’t cop to using AI for their assignments will face “more severe consequences” if school officials later confirm misconduct, she noted.
The scandal spurred the staffer to warn parents about the illicit use of AI — and the potentially life-altering consequences that could follow.
She wrote that students who submit fraudulent work would not graduate from the intensely competitive IB program — which only admits top performers worldwide.
“Our teachers must authenticate all student work prior to submission to IB,” she wrote. “If they are unable to authenticate a student’s work then the student will not have successfully completed the IB program.”
A staffer who received one of the emails told The Post that the scandal has rocked the school community.
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It’s like when they came out with calculators!
Calculators were banned in my schools and college..................
CheatGPT
If someone is going to do that, why don’t they re-write in their own words. I guess they are too lazy to even do that.
Cheat GPA!........................
Stupid sports jocks, AKA Athletes, used to pay some nerd to do their work..................
Lol, perfect!
StackOverflow gets spammed by questions that are obviously just homework problems where the student did not even bother to try to write code for themselves. Maybe ChatGPT will divert this spam.
The at home written graded essay is dead. The only way to determine student is examination. Another alternative is to lock the students in cells, as the Imperial Chinese did with their famous examinations, with zero access to the d8gital workd to write their essays
Make the classrooms into Faraday Cages so no cellphones work................
The cut throat students that make up the IB population will have no problem doing anything to get an edge to be admitted to an Ivy League or equivalent school.
Its only the beginning.
All we had was an encyclopedia and the Library..............
It wasn’t an issue in the accounting program, the professor never used numbers, and his exams were all essay questions…lol.
can chatgpt do math? Some schools, noone is able to do math apparently-
Not even ChatGBT can figure out "new math.
us too- the whole set of Britannica- which i read a lot of as we hardly even had TV with our roof antennae which always get out of whack if the wind blew which was often- Heck, i even read a lot of the dictionary lol
oh yeah, i forgot about the ‘New Math’ - no one but a liberal can figure that out, and it’s always a changin-
We lived in a fringe area, 70 miles from Memphis. TV was spotty at best...............
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