Cheating Fears Over Chatbots Were Overblown, New Research Suggests

The Pew survey results suggest that ChatGPT, at least for now, has not become the disruptive phenomenon in schools that proponents and critics forecast. Among the subset of teens who said they had heard about the chatbot, the vast majority -- 81 percent -- said they had not used it to help with their schoolwork. "Most teens do have some level of awareness of ChatGPT," said Jeffrey Gottfried, an associate director of research at Pew. "But this is not a majority of teens who are incorporating it into their schoolwork quite yet." Cheating has long been rampant in schools. In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students between 2002 and 2015, 64 percent said they had cheated on a test.