Can Anti-Plagiarism Tools Detect When AI Chatbots Write Student Essays?

After its launch last month, ChatGPT, the latest chatbot released by OpenAI, made the rounds online. Alex, a sophomore at a university in Pittsburgh, started toying with the chatbot about a week after it was released, after finding out about it on Twitter. Within a couple of days, he got really excited by the quality of the writing it produced. The chatbot was good, he says--really good. He only agreed to speak anonymously, for fear of repercussions for admitting to academic dishonesty.)