Losing Our Sh*t Over ChatGPT. OpenAI, the research company that has…

OpenAI, the research company that has caused writing teachers to collectively lose their shit through the development of their ChatGPT tool, declares that its mission is to "ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity." ChatGPT is an AI language model developed by OpenAI, which is capable of generating human-like text based on the input it is given. The model is trained on a large corpus of text data and can generate responses to questions, summarize long texts, write stories and much more. It is often used in conversational AI applications to simulate a human-like conversation with users. As educators, our alarm bells ought to be going off–and not for the most commonly expressed reasons (e.g., many students will use ChatGPT or other, similar tools to cheat; the way we teach writing might need to be completely reimagined).