It was probably too tempting: during the Abi exams in Hamburg, students allegedly cheated with AI programs such as ChatGPT. A spokesperson for the school board now speaks of a number of suspected cases.
According to the “Abendblatt”, there is no obligation to report attempts at deception. Yet there are indications of AI fraud. “Around 20 schools have reported individual suspicious cases as part of the written Abitur exams and asked how they should be handled,” said a spokesman for the school authorities.
Some high school graduates had managed to smuggle a second cell phone into the exam. In one case, an examinee was apparently caught by a teacher using artificial intelligence on his mobile phone. He would have admitted the attempted fraud.
A spokesperson for the school board confirms this to t-online. The spokesman did not want to comment on the specific case of the allegedly caught student. Basically, using ChatGPT in a high school exam is an attempt at cheating, which is graded as a fail on the exam.
The school superintendent said there had been more suspicious cases in the current year: teachers had become suspicious because their protégés’ work was partly flawless and sometimes weak. The school then checked with software whether the work was made with artificial intelligence.
Will AI chatbots become a performance booster in schools? Nearly two-thirds of students aged 14 to 19 (66 percent) believe they can improve their grades by using ChatGPT. This is evident from a study by Bitkom Research.
But only about a third (34 percent) want to actually use AI in the classroom. And 43 percent think the use of ChatGPT for homework should be banned. The bottom line is that almost everyone (85 percent) is concerned that others at school are taking an unfair advantage through ChatGPT. However, many (58 percent) want to learn how to properly use AI in the classroom.
And most students know what they’re talking about: More than half (53 percent) say they’ve used ChatGPT before.
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