Sunday, 12 February 2023

No 255: My verdict on chatgpt for Economics essays

 AS you can see from the previous post, I have been playing around with chatgpt - a new AI chat bot I am sure most of you will have heard of. I got it to write an IB IA, an A-Level 25 mark essay, and a competition essay.

And the verdict is….. don’t bother using it for your own work. Apart from it being morally wrong to do so, you will not get a good mark if you do. I marked what chatgpt did - the IA scored a 4, the A-Level essay a D, the competition essay was only mediocre. While it can produce a reasonably general Economics essay for, say, a blog, it is simply is not able to follow the very particular demands of a specialist Economics essay (which, by the way, is what you are learning to write!). Some people have also said that what one could do is use it for the basis of an essay and then modify the result. I think you would spend more time on the modifying than it would take to write it from scratch yourself.

So my message is, sorry,  you’d better do your own homework!!!!

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