ChatGPT hinders the future of education

by Gabrielle Orringer OPINIONS WRITER

In a world marked by drastic increases in technology, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the invention and obsession with the platform ChatGPT comes as no surprise. This platform allows users to enter prompts in order to obtain AI-generated, human-like responses. Increasingly popular, it is used frequently by students to write stories, essays, complete homework as signments, explain con voluted concepts, and more. Its popularity skyrocketed after it was initially launched in No vember 2022, and it is now calculated to have over 1 mil lion users. There are certainly positive uses of ChatGPT. For example, users can take advantage of the software’s seemingly all-knowing nature and have it explain a difficult concept that they would like to understand. This exemplifies its positive role in creating a world in which information is highly accessible. On the other hand, that same user could type in a homework question and co py-paste ChatGPT’s response into the as signment that they later submit, claiming the work as their own. While most stu dents focus on its abili ty to make life easier by cutting down the time spent on homework, ChatGPT could have foreseen consequences. Fresh man Jordyn Folkart said, “It’s also kind of terrifying because it could take away creative jobs, which are people’s livelihood.”

It is extremely detrimental for students to take whatever ChatGPT says and use it in their homework, as it diminishes genuine learning and student growth. While ChatGPT can be a lifesaver for students with too much work and little time, in the long run it hurts students more than it helps. If students simply copy and paste their way through assignments, they will suffer during tests and AP exams as they have failed to retain any information. ChatGPT, the easy way out, ruins student motivation and work ethic, setting them up for failure in their later, more difficult, academic years. Government teacher Mr. William Vicari said, “By saying