{"id":34359,"date":"2024-10-04T12:22:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=34359"},"modified":"2024-10-04T12:22:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:22:01","slug":"furmans-hick-comments-on-the-use-of-chatgpt-for-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-hick-comments-on-the-use-of-chatgpt-for-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s Hick comments on the use of ChatGPT for assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years into the arrival of ChatGPT and other AI tools, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/ai-plagiarism-spreading-us-colleges-094723278.html\">Business Insider<\/a> (via Yahoo! Tech) looked at the problems higher education is facing with the use of AI text generators for assignments. Beatrice Nolan of BI spoke to Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/darren-hick\/\">Darren Hick,<\/a> an assistant professor of philosophy, who said the practice of using chatbots by students for papers and other work has become a &#8220;virus&#8221; and detecting content fashioned by the large language models is becoming increasingly difficult as the tools evolve. He mentioned policing students&#8217; work for plagiarism is yet another to-do on an already full plate for professors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Philosophy Darren Hick goes on record about the use of AI text generators for assignments and how the technology is impacting higher ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":34361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3039,6,36],"tags":[3037,1756,1764,3038,1757],"class_list":["post-34359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-insider","category-in-the-news","category-philosophy","tag-ai-text-generators","tag-chatbots","tag-chatgpt","tag-large-language-models","tag-plagiarism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359","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=34359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34363,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions\/34363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}