ChatLET’s Inbox — Letter #1
Dear ChatLET: Is it alright to ask AI for help on writing my college essays? Will I get in trouble? What a great question! It’s true, the use of AI is becoming more rampant in the world of college applications and essays. While your English teacher may dismiss this as “cheating”, it’s fair to consider the extent of which you take advantage of AI language tools. Alyson Klein publicized that 1 in 3 students applying to college in the previous school year had used AI for “essay help” ranging from ideas for oddly specific essay prompts to fixing grammatical errors. However, if the writing is still their own, or even 98% their own, does this still count as “cheating”? And to what point should we consider the use of AI “cheating”? There are many points we can set, as humans consider the creation of ideas by AI to be “cheating” and the formal writing written by AI to also be “cheating”. So, when does the “cheating” begin? This is more subjective. Besides, teenagers before public AI mod...