Students discuss ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence text generator that was created by OpenAI. It can be used to answer anything you ask it with a human-like response. Its introduction in the educational setting has brought concerns about student learning in schools. Students understand the concerns about using ChatGPT for school and have their own opinions about it.

“It does work that the students don’t want to do, which is not really learning for them,” said junior Christopher Leung. “I believe that it counts as cheating, but not plagiarism because I believe that the AI writes it by itself so it is something new. But it is also writing something for you and is not using your own words,” he said.

Freshman Gordon Li had a similar view on whether using ChatGPT is cheating. 

“ChatGPT can only be considered as cheating when it’s fully taken advantage of such as writing entire essays or book reports with,” said Li. “ It shouldn’t be counted as cheating if it is used to assist you in completing a task, not doing it for you.”

Like most technology, students can use ChatGPT in positive and negative ways 

“It can be proven to be used in many other positive ways like making recipes, looking up information, proofreading, and making schedules for yourself. It’s a very versatile tool with many uses,” said Li.

Senior Bill Li agreed. “It’s AI generated text so it can help you answer essay prompts, which is basically cheating and plagiarism,” he said. “I think there are both negative and positive ways to use it, and in terms of using it in school to cheat is a negative way to use it.” 

Sophomore Romeo Zambarrano sees it as problematic. 

“It can be troubling because ChatGPT takes away any type of student involvement when using it for school work [and] teachers can’t assess a student’s level because of this,” said Zambarrano.