Despite Cheating Fears, Schools Repeal ChatGPT Bans
Summary
Amid the forecasts of imminent marvels and doom, some public schools tried to hit the pause button to give administrators time to catch up. For one thing, wealthier students who owned smartphones or laptops could simply access ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI of San Francisco, or similar bots like Google’s Bard, at home. “Children who have devices and unfiltered, unfettered connectivity at home are already benefiting from access to these tools,” Alberto M. Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, said in an interview this week. One of them was Beth Clearman, a veteran honors English teacher at a local middle school who wanted to devise some literary games for the first day of class. As the workshop wound down, Ms. Brinkley, the regional technology trainer, glanced around the room, pleased to see that dozens of local educators were now comfortable conversing — if not fluent — with A.I.