ChatGPT downsides could outweigh benefits: Teachers

ChatGPT downsides could outweigh benefits: Teachers

By Ghadeer Ghloum

KUWAIT: Cheating at schools and colleges has become easier than ever through ChatGPT, the newest tool developed by Open AI. Although the bot can be useful for students and teachers, it is also a potential source of trouble in the educational field. With easy and free access to ChatGPT, students can quickly find answers to their homework and exam questions, write research papers and fulfill other school requirements. This affects students at different levels as it brings down their motivation to put personal effort in their work and discourages critical and analytical thinking skills.

Teachers at different grade levels already have concerns about students’ unethical use of the bot. “With ChatGPT, it will just do everything for them. It is going to make children lazier. It is going to mean that children are not as able to answer questions and investigate things, and that is the same thing in home and class requirements,” Emma, an elementary teacher at a private school told Kuwait Times.

Cheating through ChatGPT hinders students’ personal development and independence. Regardless of how little students have absorbed from the learning material, they are still able to complete their work by relying on the conclusions that artificial intelligence