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Cheatbot? Why AI could spell the end for exam essays

Lecturers at UK universities have been urged to review the way in which their courses are assessed amid concerns that students are already using a potent new AI tool capable of producing high-quality essays with minimal human input.

, the latest chatbot from OpenAI, founded in 2015 by Elon Musk and others, has only been publicly available for a few weeks, but has already triggered concerns about the potential for hard-to-detect plagiarism and questions about the validity of the essay as a future

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