Update: Artificial Intelligence

To-Do Date: Aug 21 at 11:59am

Artificial intelligence (AI) language models like ChatGPT 

AI models can be very helpful when making outlines or organizing writing, especially for non-fluent English writers, and people with limited experience writing. Similar to how Wikipedia can be a reasonable place to START your research - to find useful sources that are more reputable, ChatGPT and other models can be a reasonable place for you to get ideas and outline your own writing.  

All that said - your final product for any assignment in this class needs to be your own original work - this means your ideas must be your own, even if you have help from ChatGPT with words.  In addition, you are responsible for verifying and citing information used in AI generated text.  

 

Known issues with ChatGPT and other AI models 

When students have used AI language generators for my course I have noticed the following issues: 

  • multiple students turning in assignments with identical wording and phrases 
  • incorrect information and misuse of vocabulary words 
  • failure to adequately address the prompt/question/other requirements for the assignment  
  • large sections of text that do not relate to the prompt/question/assignment requirements