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Chatbots such as ChatGPT are great at giving us answers fast. But many educators are finding that the speed at which these answers are generated comes at a cost to students’ learning.
When kids can easily generate responses to an English essay prompt or a question about photosynthesis on their science worksheet, they can seriously cut down on their homework time and falsify proof of their subject knowledge. Moreover, the generative text is often so humanlike that it can be difficult to tell it was produced by AI.
Relying on these chatbots for copy-and-paste solutions can cause students to lose out on key elements of learning. Being able to supply the correct answer is in no way a substitute for the work that goes into understanding how systems fit together or how cogent arguments are formed. Even if students add to or modify parts of an AI-generated answer, there’s a murky line between using something as inspiration and merely changing a few words here and there to fake authenticity.
