AI
A student forgets to delete the ChatGPT prompt on his homework and the oversight impacts his country
An Italian teacher shares with concern a paper written by one of his students using AI. Where are the ethical boundaries?
Artificial intelligence is already here; it is here to stay and affects many areas of our daily lives in unexpected ways. It is no longer something hypothetical in the future but our current reality. In this paradigm, many see these great language models, such as Grok, Gemini, or ChatGPT, not as tools in themselves, but as shortcuts to get the desired result. And this usually does not end well. This has been the case of an anonymous Italian student whose teacher has partially exposed one of his “homeworks” on the Internet. The student handed in an assignment created entirely with ChatGPT but forgot to remove the indications he gave to the AI at the beginning, making his maneuver so obvious that the teacher decided to make his case public, concerned about the underlying problem.
An Italian student delivers a paper created with ChatGPT and becomes a laughingstock because he forgets to delete the instructions he gave to the AI
On June 3, Enrico Galiano, an Italian writer and teacher, shared on his Facebook wall a screenshot of a text sent to him by one of his students. In this alleged assignment, the student used ChatGPT to compose a letter for him but forgot to delete the instructions he gave to the AI: “That’s fine, so I’ll keep it generic as you asked. I will now put all your answers together in a simple, clear, well-written letter in your own words.” Below is the text fragment in question:
“And when you get a homework job in the mail that starts like this, you realize that there MIGHT be something wrong,” reads the text accompanying Galiano’s post. This post has gone viral on Facebook, where it amassed several hundred reactions and comments of all kinds. Precisely in the comments box has formed a heated debate between supporters and detractors of the AI.
On one hand, some believe that artificial intelligence is an essential tool not only for tomorrow but for today, and that both students and teachers should begin to be trained in their ethical use. On the other hand, some are more critical of AIs, who consider that using ChatGPT and similar to do homework is little less than an insult to the teaching job, since the student thought that his teacher was so unprepared that he would not notice.
The Italian educational community is in an uproar these days due to this peculiar case. Both sides are partly right: while it is essential to be trained not only in the use of AI but also in an ethical use of AI, it should also be kept in mind that these learning models should be used as tools and not as shortcuts. The idea is to learn from AIs and be able to develop your own competencies because of it, and not to undergo a voluntary process of “dumbing down.” There are studies that argue that a reliance on ChatGPT and other language models results in impaired cognitive faculties and problem-solving.
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