Using ChatGPT is not undetectable.
Twenty students from the University of Strasbourg (Unistra), who had cheated using the artificial intelligence chatbot during a distance exam, had to take it again face-to-face, we learned. Friday at the establishment.
The original online exam was in the form of a multiple-choice questionnaire (MCQ) and focused on the history of Japan, the university said, confirming information from the regional daily The Latest News from Alsace (DNA).
The results, however, showed a "cheating" to ChatGPT in the responses of "twenty students" who had to spend this week a "catch-up" face-to-face, Unistra said in a statement sent.
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"This is the first case at the University of Strasbourg and we have no others to date," said the college.
“We will act on a case-by-case basis in the event of cheating, according to what the texts currently provide for”, underlined the officials of the establishment, adding that this was a “difficulty which concerns all the actors of the teaching”.
Concerns in teaching
Designed by the Californian start-up OpenAI and made available to the public in November, ChatGPT makes it possible to automatically generate texts (dissertations, advertisements, etc.) or lines of computer code on demand in a few seconds.
It arouses concern within the educational community, which fears that it will be used as a tool for cheating or plagiarism by pupils or students during exams, but also for their homework.
One of the founders of OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk, tweeted precisely at the beginning of January: “It's a new world.
Farewell, homework!
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ChatGPT and other artificial intelligences have therefore been banned from schools and universities all over the world, like Sciences-po Paris.
The Minister of National Education, Pap Ndiaye, even mentioned more global measures.
"We will have to intervene on this, we are thinking about the right way to intervene," he said Thursday on France Inter.
