Let's Talk About ChatGPT and Cheating in the Classroom

Katie Drummond: These names are horrific, by the way. Just memo to Chegg and Studdy, you have some work to do. You both have some work to do. Lauren Goode: Chegg has been around for a while, right? Katie Drummond: It's a bad name. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Michael Calore: It has been, it's been very popular for a while. One of the reasons it's popular is the writing assistant. Basically you upload your paper and it checks it for grammar and syntax and it just helps you sound smarter. It also checks it for plagiarism, which is kind of amazing because if you're plagiarizing, it'll just help you not get caught plagiarizing and it can help you cite research. If you need to have a certain number of citations in a paper, oftentimes professors will say, "I want to see five sources cited." You just plug in URLs and it just generates citations for you. So it really makes that easy. Katie Drummond: I mean, I will say there are some parts of what you just described that I love. I love the idea of ... Read full article.