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Exam cheating with AI

Some people are worried that advances in AI could lead to a rise in exam cheating.

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The story  

Could cheating in exams be about to get easier?

Artificial Intelligence apps like ChatGPT are capable of generating human-like text.

Teachers and academics are worried that this might make it impossible to tell whether a text was written by a student or a computer.

Some experts say this could be a positive development.

Key words and phrases

fuelling
making or causing something

• The dark winters are really fuelling my passion for staying in and playing video games.
• The bad economic results fuelled worries about the future of the company.

desperate for
want something badly

• I'm so hungry. I'm desperate for a sandwich.
• Everything feels uncertain. I'm desperate for news of what will happen next.

dark ages
old-fashioned; from a different period of time

• He dresses like he lives in the dark ages. No-one wears those clothes nowadays.
• Some people's attitudes are out of the dark ages on this issue.

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