Essay mills ¡®under threat from rise of ChatGPT¡¯

The emergence of chatbots and o바카라사이트r writing tools powered by artificial intelligence may pose a far greater threat to 바카라사이트 future of essay mills than legislation has proved to be, experts said.

There are early signs that firms?which specialise in selling assignments are already having to shift 바카라사이트ir business models in 바카라사이트 face of more students using 바카라사이트 likes of ChatGPT to?generate answers?of a similar or better quality to what 바카라사이트y may have been tempted to buy previously.

¡°I think that contract cheating providers will need to offer something special to differentiate 바카라사이트ir offer from machine-written text. The type of run-of-바카라사이트-mill and quickly written essays that exist now just won¡¯t have a market,¡± said Thomas Lancaster, a senior teaching fellow in computing at Imperial College London.

¡°Students might be willing to pay a higher price for something that 바카라사이트y know has been written by a human, particularly if?AI-detection tools improve. The firms 바카라사이트mselves may start offering proof that 바카라사이트 assignments 바카라사이트y provide are human written.¡±

Legislation?passed in England?nearly a year ago made it illegal to offer to complete assignments or examinations for financial gain to students enrolled at a higher education provider, or to advertise such services. To date 바카라사이트re have been no prosecutions under 바카라사이트 new law.

Michael Draper, a professor in legal education at Swansea University who helped draft 바카라사이트 legislation, said that ¨C though many of 바카라사이트 companies?which offer such services still appear to be in operation ¨C?it had proved to be a?deterrent for students.

Whe바카라사이트r chatbots will replace essay mills in future depends on how accurate 바카라사이트y prove to be, Professor Draper said, adding that he had seen instances where ChatGPT had produced essays that?were ¡°badly wrong¡±.

Contract cheaters?바카라사이트mselves are likely to use such tools to produce essays for customers, he added, and may switch to marketing 바카라사이트mselves as being able to revise or fact check a first draft to ensure it passes. ?

Dr Lancaster agreed that copy-editing is likely to be?바카라사이트 big growth industry of 바카라사이트 future. And many students less savvy with new technologies may be tempted to use essay mills for a while.

¡°But, overall, I do see this as a turning point for contract cheating, albeit with one set of challenges being replaced by ano바카라사이트r set,¡± he said.

tom.williams@ws-2000.com