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As proficiency with ChatGPT becomes increasingly valuable, students must learn to use these technologies sensibly and, dare I say it, ethically to avoid falling behind their peers, writes Johan Fourie.
I gave my second-year economic history students a difficult assignment this previous semester: write an essay.
While students have been writing essays for centuries, today’s students face an extra challenge: they now have a digital co-author capable of doing the work for them. Welcome to the world of large language models like ChatGPT.
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