From ChatGPT's creator, OpenAI:
From Ditch That Textbook:
ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education
From Inside Higher Ed:
Freaking Out About ChatGPT—Part I
From MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI:
Here is a sample writing prompt I gave to ChatGPT, and the response it gave me.
My Prompt:
Write a horror story
ChatGPT response:
The old, decrepit mansion atop Haunted Hill had stood abandoned for generations, shrouded in chilling rumors and tales of horror. It was a place where the living dared not venture, and the dead were said to roam freely. The townsfolk spoke in hushed tones about the tragic history that clung to its timeworn walls.
One cold, moonless night, curiosity and a youthful dare led three friends, Alex, Sarah, and Mark, to the mansion's imposing entrance. Armed with only flickering flashlights and trembling resolve, they pushed open the creaking front door and ventured into the abyss of shadows beyond.
As they made their way through the dark, winding corridors, the air grew frigid, and a haunting chill crept up their spines. Cobwebs clung to their faces like spectral fingers, and the silence was so absolute that they could hear the pounding of their own hearts.
Descending into the mansion's bowels, they entered a room that sent shivers down their spines. The walls were adorned with ancient, decaying portraits of long-forgotten inhabitants, their eyes following the intruders with a malevolent glare.
The room seemed to breathe, its walls contracting and expanding with a sinister rhythm. It was then that they heard it—an eerie, disembodied whisper that slithered through the air, promising madness and doom.
"Leave now," it hissed, its voice echoing from the very walls themselves.
Mark, emboldened by bravado, scoffed at the warning. "Just some parlor tricks to scare us," he said, but his trembling hands betrayed his false confidence.
The trio pressed on, deeper into the mansion's depths, their flashlights casting grotesque, dancing shadows on the walls. In a room heavy with the scent of decay, they stumbled upon a dusty old diary, its pages filled with the ramblings of a tormented soul.
It spoke of a malevolent presence that had plagued the mansion for centuries, feeding on the fear and despair of its victims, trapping their souls within its cursed walls. Desperate pleas for release were etched in shaky handwriting, telling of the endless torment endured by those who had crossed its threshold.
As they read, the very atmosphere seemed to thicken, and the walls closed in around them. Panic set in as the sinister whispers grew louder and more insistent.
"Leave now," they begged, but it was too late.
Sarah's flashlight flickered and died, plunging them into total darkness. The room pulsated with a malevolent energy, and they felt icy fingers wrap around their throats. Desperate cries for help echoed through the cursed mansion, but they would never reach the outside world.
In the days that followed, townsfolk spoke of the three friends who had ventured into Haunted Hill Mansion and never returned. Some said they had been claimed by the vengeful spirit that dwelled within, while others believed they had become a part of the mansion's dark history.
Haunted Hill Mansion stood untouched, its secrets buried within its walls, waiting for the next unsuspecting souls to dare enter its forsaken halls—a chilling testament to the horrors that lurked in the shadows, waiting to consume the living.
In an effort to get ahead of students trying to use AI to write assignments, we are seeing a wave of ChatGPT detectors.
While useful, keep in mind that many of these detectors don't catch all AI generated text, and that they can identify as AI-written text that is written by a person.
ChatGPT Just Got Better. What Does That Mean for Our Writing Assignments? – From Chronicle of Higher Education
Practical Responses to ChatGPT and Other Generative AI - From Montclair State University office for Faculty Excellence
Why detecting AI-generated text is so difficult (and what to do about it) - From MIT Technology Review
Teaching Actual Student Writing in an AI World - From Inside Higher Ed
Update your course syllabus for ChatGPT. - From Medium.
Incorporating AI in Teaching: Practical Examples for Busy Instructors – By Daniel Stanford
Adapting College Writing for the Age of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT: Some Next Steps for Educators. - By Anna Mills and Lauren M. E. Goodlad. From the blog for Critical AI
My Assessments Next Semester – Modified for Avoiding & Embracing AI. - By Maha Bali
Teaching with ChatGPT: Assignment Design Tips & Ideas. - From Montclair State University Office for Faculty Excellence
AI aren't all-knowing, and they aren't searching the internet for answers as they go - they can only answer questions based on the information they got as training data.
But AI are more than happy to make up articles and even citations that look right, and will then even insist to you that they are real.
This is AI Hallucination.
So be very cautious of information you get from an AI, even if it hands you really nice looking citations to go with it, and always verify information and citations yourself.
Some Examples:
Search or Fabrication, from AI Weirdness - Bing's ChatGPT-powered chat tab makes up an entire blog post, and then insists it's real.
Artificial Intelligence Not Yet Intelligent Enough to be a Trusted Research Aid, from The Scholarly Kitchen - ChatGPT helpfully invents entire books
Lawyer cites fake cases generated by ChatGPT in legal brief, from legaldive - ChatGPT invents fake cases and, when asked, says they're real
Hallucinations in ChatGPT: A Cautionary Tale for Biomedical Researchers, from the American Journal of Medicine. By Jerome Goddard - ChatGPT references, and then produces a citation for, a nonexistent study
