A college student has used Open AI's chatbot called ChatGPT to write an essay about burqa bans that they then submitted for grading. Aumann explained to Futurism that the student was instructed to rewrite the essay, which is what is done the majority of the time in plagiarism cases. Chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT are free and have very powerful capabilities that are resulted in them going viral. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence designed to have human-like conversations where it remembers what was talked about earlier in the conversation. 3Notably, both The New York City and Seattle public school systems have outright banned the use of ChatGPT on school networks/devices.

Source: New York Times January 20, 2023 16:14 UTC