The effort it will take to make ChatGPT write an essay paragraph by paragraph is not worth getting caught cheating. But there are ethical ways it can help you along the way.

Anthropic released a guide to get the most out of your chatbot prompts. It says you should think of its own chatbot, Claude, as a forgetful employee.

Other educators are using platforms such as Turnitin that boast plagiarism detection tools to help teachers identify when assignments are written by ChatGPT and other AI.

As it learns these patterns, the transformer model sketches a map: an enormously complex mathematical representation of human language. It keeps track of these relationships using numerical values ...

The bot is free for now and can produce uncannily natural, well-referenced writing in response to homework questions.