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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tim Hanlon

Teachers desperate for help over AI chatbot writing entire essays for cheating students

Teachers in Britain may be given advice on how to prevent the spread of cheating on school coursework by pupils using a new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.

ChatGPT, which has been running for a month by Silicon Valley based company OpenAI, is a free online service which answers questions for people who register.

The chatbot’s algorithms mean that it can answer on all subjects and write entire essays based on prompts, which is seen as a danger for schools.

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