Outcheat the Cheat
ChatGPT has become the go-to cheating tool for lousy students. And that potentially means trouble for the essay ghostwriters that cash in on the countless students willing to eschew academic integrity for a better grade,Indeed, OpenAI's blockbuster chatbot — and generative AIs in general — may be the only thing capable of putting a dent in the mammoth cheating industry., that hasn't stopped cheating-for-hire from being a stupendously lucrative business.
"Colleges are basically businesses," Bruce Ross, who runs the cheating service My Essay Writer, told the. "People look at what we do as a 'no-no' in a moral sense, but they don't really question the ethics of what the school system is doing to a lot of the students, making these promises to them."But lazy college students are right to now wonder why they should shell out the extra money for a ghostwritten essay when ChatGPT can now do written assignments for free.
To that end, Ross admits that ChatGPT could threaten his business, and said that the recent months have seen a drop in demand. Seemingly confirming this trend, one eyebrow-raising survey conducted by Study.com early on in the ChatGPT craze reported thatThat figure deserves some scrutiny, however. The results of a full-blown study this year, cited by, showed that a far fewer 43 percent used ChatGPT for school work, and only four percent actually used the chatbot to write entire assignments. That aside, the tool'sSo, luckily for Ross, perhaps some bespoke cheating will remain old-school.