Student caught using ChatGPT to write philosophy essay at South Carolina university

A South Carolina college philosophy professor is warning that we should expect a flood cheating with ChatGPT - a chatbot from OpenAI that's powered by artificial intelligence - after catching one of his students using it to generate an essay. Darren Hick, a philosophy professor at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, wrote a lengthy Facebook post this month detailing issues with the advanced chatbot and the'first plagiarist' he'd caught for a recent assignment to write 500 words on Hume and the paradox of horror. ChatGPT, which has been trained on a gigantic sample of text from the internet, can understand human language, conduct conversations with humans and generate detailed text that many have said is human-like and quite impressive. 'ChatGPT responds in seconds with a response that looks like it was written by a human--moreover, a human with a good sense of grammar and an understanding of how essays should be structured,' Hicks wrote. Darren Hick, a philosophy professor at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, wrote a lengthy Facebook post this month detailing issues with the advanced chatbot and the'first plagiarist' he'd caught for a recent assignment'The first indicator that I was dealing with A.I. is that, despite the syntactic coherence of the essay, it made no sense.'