University examiners fail to spot ChatGPT answers in real-world test

Ninety-four per cent of university exam submissions created using ChatGPT weren't detected as being generated by artificial intelligence, and these submissions tended to get higher scores than real students' work. Peter Scarfe at the University of Reading, UK, and his colleagues used ChatGPT to produce answers to 63 assessment questions on five modules across the university's psychology undergraduate degrees. Students sat these exams at home, so they were allowed to look at notes and references, and they could potentially have used AI although this wasn't permitted. How this moment for AI will change society forever (and how it won't) The AI-generated answers were submitted alongside real students' work, and accounted for, on average, 5 per cent of the total scripts marked by academics. The markers weren't informed that they were checking the work of 33 fake students – whose names were themselves generated by ChatGPT.