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What is you sequentially fed ChatGPT with samples of the course professor's own writing, and then asked it to write an essay on the subject of interest? As the

What is you sequentially fed ChatGPT with samples of the course professor's own writing, and then asked it to write an essay on the subject of interest? As the article notes, optimization is possible: > "For example, high school and college students have been using ChatGPT to cheat on essay writing. Since current recognition of AI generated content by humans involve identifying ChatGPT’s signature overly-academic voice, it wouldn’t surprise me if some kids on TikTok figure out a system prompt that allow generation such that it doesn’t obviously sound like ChatGPT and also avoid plagiarism detectors." A decent student might go to the trouble of checking all the factual claims produced in the essay in other sources, thus essentially using ChatGPT to write a rough draft then spending the time saved on checking facts and personalizing the style. I don't even know if that would count as serious cheating, although the overall structure of such essays would probably be similar. Running 'regenerate response' a few times might help with that issue, maybe even, 'restructure the essay in a novel manner' or similar.

vkou 4y ago
I can't see why feeding it another 50, or even 500 papers is going to make it any better at making the categories of non-explicit inferences that its currently failing at, when the terabytes upon terabytes and hundreds of thousands of papers of training data did not. It could train it to speak in the mannerisms of a particular author, but that's the least interesting thing in this context, and it'll still be speaking in banalities and nonsense.
- ShamelessC 4y ago
  Going from "zero-shot" inference to many-shot is known to improve accuracy. I think you are moving goalposts a bit far! in any case. Sure, it's suffering at the college level; but the type of student using this isn't hoping for an A, they are hoping not to fail completely. Which, as far as I can tell - ChatGPT will give you about the same chance of passing as the existing strategy of "do it all in an hour before handing it in because you procrastinated". Probably better in the case of grade school.

vkou 4y ago

I can't see why feeding it another 50, or even 500 papers is going to make it any better at making the categories of non-explicit inferences that its currently failing at, when the terabytes upon terabytes and hundreds of thousands of papers of training data did not. It could train it to speak in the mannerisms of a particular author, but that's the least interesting thing in this context, and it'll still be speaking in banalities and nonsense.

ShamelessC 4y ago
Going from "zero-shot" inference to many-shot is known to improve accuracy. I think you are moving goalposts a bit far! in any case. Sure, it's suffering at the college level; but the type of student using this isn't hoping for an A, they are hoping not to fail completely. Which, as far as I can tell - ChatGPT will give you about the same chance of passing as the existing strategy of "do it all in an hour before handing it in because you procrastinated". Probably better in the case of grade school.