
“I don’t want to assume the bad intentions of students, but I can’t see if they wrote something themselves.” The existing plagiarism detection against ChatGPT, which checks for identical texts in papers by other students or online, is powerless against ChatGPT because the AI bot generates text itself.Īccording to Sogut, it is essential that students write their own text because that is how teachers judge whether they have a good command of the language.

He teaches Dutch, one of the subjects students often reported using ChatGPT for. Nijmegen lecturer Furkan Sogut is worried. “According to the assignment, I had to give my own opinion. Their homework goes in, and ChatGPT generates an entirely new version with exactly the same content but in different words.Ī group four student in VWO told the broadcaster that he outsourced his poetry analysis to ChatGPT. Then a teacher really can’t check what my own words are.”Īnother student uses ChatGPT to copy friends’ homework. “It often says in an assignment: tell it in your own words. “I use it to quickly do my homework,” he said. One student from group 3 in HAVO told NOS he uses the tool all the time.

They often use it for Dutch language assignments. Students use ChatGPT to answer parts of questions, write paragraphs, write entire essays, remove spelling errors from their texts, or even come up with ideas. Over 250 said that they use the artificial intelligence bot for school assignments, and in almost all cases, they did not get caught. School students in the Netherlands are using the advanced AI text generator ChatGPT to do all kinds of homework assignments without their teachers noticing, NOS reports after speaking to students.
