Twenty students at the University of Strasbourg in eastern France who cheated on a remote exam using the artificial intelligence “chatbot” ChatGPT were forced to repeat it.
• Also read: ChatGPT creators struggle to find the antidote
• Also read: ChatGPT chatbot narrowly passes US law school test
• Also read: ChatGPT: “We only see the tip of the iceberg,” according to an expert
The results showed that ChatGPT “cheated” in the responses of “twenty students” who had to make personal “catch-up” this week, Unistra University said.
The original online exam consisted of a multiple choice questionnaire (MCQ) and focused on the history of Japan.
ChatGPT, designed by Californian start-up OpenAI and opened to the public in November, allows text (dissertations, advertisements, etc.) or lines of computer code to be automatically generated on demand in a few seconds.
It raises concern in the education community, who fear that it will be used as a cheating or plagiarism tool by pupils or students during exams but also for their homework. One of the founders of OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk, tweeted right at the beginning of January: “It’s a new world. Goodbye, homework!”.
ChatGPT and other artificial intelligences are now banned from schools and universities around the world, like Sciences Po Paris.
French Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye mentioned even more global measures. “We have to intervene here, we are thinking about the right way to intervene,” he told France Inter radio on Thursday.