Back in February 2019, the AI development company OpenAI announced that they had successfully created a text-generating AI system — the GPT-2. They would not, however, release the full version of the program for fear that it will be used for malicious purposes, like spreading fake news and spam.
Of course, it eventually did did [sic] release a full version of the neural network. By and large, it turned out that people were more interested in using GPT-2 as an AI dungeon master than churning out the endless torrent of fake news and propaganda that OpenAI had worried about.
But while people are not interested in using it to spread false information, some are eager to use it to cheat their way through the academe. At least, an individual named Tiago admitted to doing it.
Tiago, a student who’s getting his master’s degree in business, told Futurism that he been using GPT-2 to write essays for his coursework.
He was willing to share his story — and copies of his AI-generated essays — on the condition that Futurism didn’t share identifying information beyond his first name.
Check out his interview over at the site.
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