ChatGPT, Wikipedia, and student writing assignments – Wiki Education

ChatGPT is the internet's shiny new toy. It's also a potential shortcut for students to quickly generate essays and other writing assignments -- which has many educators rethinking their assignment designs. ChatGPT is built on top of the GPT-3 language model, a machine learning model designed to predict (to simplify it slightly) the next word in a text. It does this by analyzing a very large amount of text data, and calculating probabilistic relationships between words in a sequence. It's designed, in other words, to produce the same patterns of word use that are present in the datasets used to train the model.