Fighting the Tide—GPT and an Alarming Sense of Déjà Vu
Authors: Phippen, A. and Bond, E.
Volume: Part F15
Pages: 37-51
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33627-0_2
Abstract:The emergence of Large Language Models such as GPT3 have caused ripples through academia around the impact of such tools on plagiarism and student assessment. There are claims that these tools will make the traditional assessment approaches obsolete and there has been something of a moral panic across the sector, with some universities already threatening students with academic misconduct hearings should they use these tools. However, we can see if we consider historical literature, that the same concerns were levelled at the widespread advent of search engines and, even further into history, electronic calculators. Rather than panic or try to ban the inevitable, we propose the approaches will have to adapt, but this is not the end of assessment as some have proposed.
Source: Scopus