A university student confessed to using ChatGPT to finish two computer-related assignments. She is certainly not the first and won’t be the last student to use this program to help with assignments. Professors and teachers defined this phenomenon of AI programs as a state which leads to chaos in the learning system, which will degrade the student’s intelligence. Also, students are relying on AI programs instead of doing the writing themselves. This lack of effort has made educators concerned about the deterioration of their students' writing skills. 

An article in The New York Times cited the emergence of ChatGPT as an innovation comparable to the web browser Netscape, Google search engine, and Apple iPhone.
At the same time, the author of the article said that a ”red alert” had been issued to Google?the gateway to the Internet for the past 20 years.
This is because ChatGPT can threaten Google by serving as a new portal to the Internet. Google works by listing Internet links related to search terms and then delivering answers to questions logically and in detail. Users might switch to ChatGPT to find answers to queries, meaning that they forgo using Google. Google could then suffer the same fate as its predecessors?abandoned for the shiny new thing.  

Education experts worry that students' ability to learn may be compromised if they rely on AI. In particular, if assignments such as reports and essays are completed with ChatGPT, the educational goal of developing critical thinking skills is highly likely to become useless. Why bother trying to teach critical reasoning skills, when an AI program can do the work for them? 

However, educators’ fears could be overblown. At present, ChatGPT can only produce simple samples of writing that are rife with non-pertinent details. For most professors, it should be obvious that a student has cheated using a program like this. Although ChatGPT and other AI techniques are not developed to handle complex tasks, we should think about the abuse of AI. Programs like this make it easy for students to cheat. Even if the method of cheating isn’t very sophisticated, the ease with which students can finish assignments might lead more students to commit plagiarism. Although the conscientious minds of students towards their learning are important, since there aren't strict rules for the usage of AI in students’ tasks, I think that educators must be aware and put their effort into making the step forward regulations and students have to rethink the authenticity of learning.

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