Beatriz Moya prides herself on being a curious and creative student, but that doesn’t stop her from experimenting with ChatGPT.
“It can be uncomfortable and scary as a teacher when you’re supposed to know how to assess your students and this whole world is changing faster than we can keep up with,” said Sarah Elaine Eaton, an associate professor at the Werklund School of Education and principal investigator on the team. “From what we’ve seen anecdotally, it’s pretty easy for the artificial intelligence apps to fool people at the first pass when they are looking through it, but then you dig a little bit deeper and you say there’s something about this that seems a little generic or might not seem like it has a personal touch,” Eaton said. “Mind you, the apps are getting better and better every week.”