Philipp SteinkrügerMar 23, 2023

Reading this semester's essays, I note several common features that I haven't seen like this in past years:

- very few typos and grammatical oddities (which are otherwise common in first year students)
- very repetitive

I think I'm seeing Chat-GPT at work...

Show threadPhilipp SteinkrügerMar 23, 2023
I just asked Chat-GPT to write an essay for the question I asked the students to write about and it's definitely using the same patterns and expressions that I see all over the student essays. So I fear I have to conclude that something like 75% of submissions are Chat-GPT plagiarized.
Show threadPhilipp SteinkrügerMar 23, 2023
Another hint: students usually are very fond of providing tables of content, even for the shortest of essays. But this year, very few essays have TOCs. But Chat-GPT also doesn't give TOCs...
Show threadPhilipp SteinkrügerMar 23, 2023

After five Chat-GPT essays in a row finally a real original essay:

- 10 item TOC for a 9 page essay
- "Oral" sentence structure in the first paragraphs
- typos and stylistic errors down to non-existent words

Show threadTatjana SchefflerMar 23, 2023
@philippsteinkrueger 😭Tears of gratitude, B+ “thank you for your effort!”
Show threadPhilipp Steinkrüger
@tschfflr Totally, my first thought!
Mar 23, 2023 at 3:21pmWeb