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ChatGPT and its ability to generate original text from almost any user-provided prompt has cast some uncertainties about the future of technology use in and out of the classroom at Gunn.

The artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the startup OpenAI was originally launched as a prototype in November 2022. Since its official release in February, its popularity has skyrocketed. ChatGPT鈥檚 ability to output detailed responses to almost any question has made it appealing to some students as a completely automated homework-completing machine.

The Gunn student handbook defines what does and does not count as academic dishonesty: 鈥淎llowing others to complete your course work or to take your quiz, test and exams is considered cheating and could result in a review by your teacher followed by consequences.鈥� English teacher Diane Ichikawa believes that using ChatGPT to complete school assignments violates that honor code. 鈥淚 showed my freshmen a story where a man bought a painting from an artist, and then interviewed the artist saying that 鈥業 bought this under the idea that you had painted it, but it turns out it was AI.鈥� And the artist said, 鈥榃ell, but I put the prompt in for the AI,鈥欌�� she said. 鈥淎ll the students laughed at it, and I said, 鈥業f you put the prompt in for an essay, and it spits out an essay, did you write it?鈥� I think it鈥檚 clear to students that it鈥檚 not actually their own work鈥攚e all know that it鈥檚 a shortcut.鈥�

Computer science teacher Joshua Paley compared students using ChatGPT to do schoolwork with the online school experience of the 2020-2021 school year. 鈥淒uring the pandemic, students didn鈥檛 have ChatGPT, but they did have Discord,鈥� he said. 鈥淪o imagine you鈥檙e a teacher and you鈥檙e giving a test during the pandemic. How long do you figure it will take for the test to be visible by all students on Discord and for them to be chatting about it?鈥�

English teacher Justin Brown is still considering what to do about the rise of ChatGPT usage among students. 鈥淩ight now we鈥檙e just in the stage of trying to get to know the technology and what it can and can鈥檛 do, as well as worrying about how much we should really change what we currently do,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he important thing we鈥檙e trying to figure out is how we can use (ChatGPT) to enhance what we do rather than have it be an obstacle that鈥檚 a problem for us.鈥�

Ichikawa has done several activities with her students involving ChatGPT, with the goal of demonstrating the gap between human- and machine-generated work. 鈥淚 had students write about 鈥楾he Grapes of Wrath鈥� for about 20 minutes,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hen I had them plug the same prompt into ChatGPT. We compared the two responses and saw quality and depth differences.鈥� Ichikawa did another activity with her freshmen students to highlight faults in the AI. 鈥淢y freshmen plugged in some poetry prompts, and even with very specific prompting to not rhyme or meter the lines, it still continued to rhyme and meter everything, so they could see some of its limitations,鈥� she said.

Although faults do exist with the software, junior Om Mahesh believes that ChatGPT can be a useful tool for students with specific questions. 鈥淚f you鈥檙e trying to search for something like a synonym for some word, ChatGPT is pretty good at that,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 just a better way of Googling.鈥�

That being said, Mahesh understands that ChatGPT is far from all-knowing and struggles to be helpful in many cases regarding schoolwork. 鈥淭here was one time when I tried to ask a math question like, 鈥榃hat is the prime factorization of one?鈥� and it gave me a wrong answer,鈥� he said. 鈥淐hatGPT is just really bad at math. If you try to do five-digit addition with it, it just can鈥檛.鈥�

Ichikawa agrees that the technology can be helpful for students when used with caution. 鈥淭he ability to ask (ChatGPT) for prompts, like 鈥榃hat should I write about?鈥� or (when) it鈥檚 used as a brainstorming generative tool could be helpful,鈥� she said.

Others, such as freshman Meilin Hansen, believe that using ChatGPT for schoolwork causes more harm than good. 鈥淚f you鈥檙e relying on it to do your homework, then that鈥檚 a very strong dependence on a computer that you can teach two plus two is five,鈥� she said.

Still, she expects many students to attempt to be academically dishonest on assignments by using ChatGPT to complete them. 鈥淚 anticipate students using this to cheat on all sorts of things,鈥� Hansen said. 鈥淚鈥檝e had to resist strong temptation to not.鈥� Mahesh echoed her thoughts. 鈥淐heating on essays is definitely spreading and becoming more and more common,鈥� he said.

Despite the potential for academic dishonesty, Paley doesn鈥檛 plan on adjusting his classroom routine to accommodate for the existence of ChatGPT. 鈥淎t the end of the day, if you use ChatGPT to do the programs in my class, fine,鈥� he said. 鈥淗ave fun on the tests that are on paper.鈥�

Paley also believes that, like him, other teachers won鈥檛 make any drastic changes to their classes to prevent academic dishonesty stemming from ChatGPT. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think that there are many teachers out there who are interested in policing ChatGPT,鈥� he said. 鈥淣obody wants to deal with that, and I know I don鈥檛 want to deal with that.鈥�

ChatGPT鈥檚 computational power, precision and accuracy can only grow over time as its developers continue to improve it. Ichikawa accepts that academic dishonesty from ChatGPT and similar applications will be an ongoing issue for many years to come. 鈥淚t鈥檚 only going to get better and more sophisticated, so I don鈥檛 think that we should bang our heads against the wall trying to stop it,鈥� she said. 鈥淭here should be ways that we can try to work with it. I don鈥檛 know what they are just yet.鈥�

Regardless of whether or not overarching Gunn policies or individual classroom policies change as a result of ChatGPT, its existence will most likely be permanent. While Paley doesn鈥檛 see himself enforcing policies regarding AI in his classes at all, he still advises awareness of the issue. 鈥淭he important thing to understand is that ChatGPT isn鈥檛 going to go away,鈥� he said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 the world we鈥檙e all stuck in.鈥�