They're not messing around: my nephew's grad-school roommate got caught using ChatGPT for a take-home exam. Expelled from this Ivy League school, lost his student visa, had to head back home to try to explain this to the family. Yikes!
But did he use it? Because AI Reddit at least claims dozens of examples of schools falsely flagging up original content as AI generated. Poor guy either way.
Several students in Revling's online English course used AI for their essays. Teacher sent out a blasting email, but apparently is allowing a re-write. I hope she at least deducts something from their marks.
I asked Revling how her classmates got caught and she said there were some similar phrases, plus it was supposed to be a descriptive essay and some of the sentences were too generic.
I imagine that if you don’t, or can’t, do a sanity check on what you’re getting out of the chatbot that you could pass on an ‘hallucination’ and make it ridiculously obvious
"hallucination" is a good way to describe ChatGPT writing ... or sometimes it's just incredibly flat, stating the obvious, filler sentences for wordcount