AI essay writers, the death of student essays?
Some students regard AI essay writers as little more than grammar checkers and therefore perfectly legitimate. Essay Witch a student in New Zealand, spoke to a student newspaper about his experience with essay writing software.
https://www.canta.co.nz/newsarticle/115524?newsfeedId=1453013
Essay Witch parsed the university rules with a very legalistic eye. “I looked through the [UC] rules and it says you can’t get somebody else to [do the assessment]. Well it’s not somebody, it’s AI.”
Another possible use for the AI text generators could be to recreate writings of long dead authors.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-essays/672371/
The Atlantic article correctly points out that universities will need to address this issue much sooner than later.
Instructors may need to rethink the role of essays in their instruction plans.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/05/17/new-ai-tools-that-can-write-student-essays-require-educators-to-rethink-teaching-and-assessment/#comments