The threats presented by ChatGPT have been hotly debated by educators around the world.
It has sparked concerns among educators since early this year, following numerous reports of students using ChatGPT to produce essays and passing them off as their own work.
Hence, no matter how worried we may be about the unthinkable, ChatGPT is here to stay, and its profound impact on teaching and learning culture is inevitable. Despite much fanfare, using ChatGPT for teaching and learning is inevitably a double-edged sword. While ChatGPT represents an unprecedented opportunity for the education sector, it also poses potential threats to learning culture and to assessment design.
To make matters worse, ChatGPT can produce plagiarism-free content. This poses a major challenge to the education sector, where academic integrity is paramount. It is worth remembering that, despite the shockwaves it has generated, the current version of ChatGPT is merely a ‘research preview’, and that, with the continuous training provided by users, it will only become more powerful and more human-like. Likewise with Google’s Bard chatbot, despite its embarrassing launch.
Furthermore, ChatGPT is capable of producing only text-based output, at least for now; it is unable to provide multimodal answers involving video and graphic elements, for instance.
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