Ice Breaker It’s an open secret that students are increasingly turning to ChatGPT to generate essays and answers to their homework. Teachers are even starting turning to the tool themselves, using it to grade papers and come up with questions for quizzes. But the sheer extent to which the tech is invading the classroom is astonishing. As Business Insider reports, University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor of philosophy Megan Fritts was startled to discover that her students were even using ChatGPT on her very first assignment: a brief chance to “briefly introduce” themselves and “say what you’re hoping to get out of this class.” Worse yet, the lazy shortcut was for Fritts’ “ethics and technology” course. “They all owned up to it, to their credit,” she told BI. “But it was just really surprising to me that — what was supposed to be a kind of freebie in terms of assignments — even that they felt compelled to generate with an LLM.” Chat to GPT You Instead of revealing what they were actually hoping to get out of the class, the students’ rote AI-generated answers were simple regurgitations of what ethics classes usually entail. “A lot of students who take philosophy classes, especially if they’re not majors, don’t really know what philosophy is,” she said. “So I like to get an idea of what their expectations are so I can know how to respond to them.” Fritts was particularly taken aback by the use of large language models (LLMs) in…Professor Horrified When Students Use ChatGPT to Generate "Briefly Introduce Yourself" Assignment… in Ethics Course