A Lesson on ChatGPT

29 January 2023

Generative artificial intelligence tools, such as the language and writing tool ChatGPT, suddenly became widely accessible in 2023. Just about anyone with a computer and internet connection has the potential to use it to draft an essay. Greg ‘Smithy’ Smith’s cartoon considers whether this will radically change the way normal classroom assignment-writing is done in the future.

A robot sits in the middle of a class of school students, and the teacher asks it to prepare a list of students who it helped on the last assignment.