{"id":22286,"date":"2022-12-27T18:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T23:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=22286"},"modified":"2023-01-05T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:30:24","slug":"flood-of-cheating-expert-warns-new-tool-will-be-a-game-changer-for-cheaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/flood-of-cheating-expert-warns-new-tool-will-be-a-game-changer-for-cheaters\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Flood of cheating’: Expert warns new tool will be a game changer for cheaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the untrained eye and for those who don’t specialize in the nuances of philosophical thought, the 500-word paper would likely have passed without a second look. But to Darren Hick, Furman University assistant professor of philosophy, there was something peculiar about an essay written ostensibly by a Furman student for an assignment in his class. Hick alerted his fellow academicians about weeks old ChatGPT in a Facebook post, which tipped off journalists. He spoke to CNN<\/a>‘s Abby Phillip and other media outlets about OpenAI’s tool, a freely available AI bot that spits out papers in mere seconds – technology that has “blindsided” academia and will present new challenges for professors and administrators everywhere.<\/p>\n

In addition to CNN’s coverage, Hick’s comments about ChatGPT appeared in the New York Post<\/a>, The Daily Wire<\/a>, Axios<\/a>, Canada Today<\/a>, BusinessNews<\/a>, Deccan Herald<\/a> (India), Computerworld<\/a> and others. A nine-minute interview featuring Hick can be heard on ABC Radio Melbourne<\/a> with host Ali Moore. Subsequent stories appeared on KTEN.com<\/a>, The Daily Check<\/a>, News Brig<\/a>, and Vigour Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Facebook post by Darren Hick, Furman assistant professor of philosophy, sets off a firestorm of media coverage about plagiarism, bots, AI and choppy waters ahead for professors and university administrators everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":22291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1759,1758,1763,1762,145,1766,1765,6,1760,36,1761,1],"tags":[1754,1755,1752,1756,1764,1753,1757],"class_list":["post-22286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-radio-melbourne","category-axios","category-businessnews","category-canada-today","category-cnn","category-computerworld","category-deccan-herald","category-in-the-news","category-new-york-post","category-philosophy","category-the-daily-wire","category-uncategorized","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bots","tag-chatbots","tag-chatgpt","tag-cheating","tag-plagiarism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}