It's a No from us. The Pirate Press staff express their mutual disdain for Chat GPT use in school. Creative and free thought is a trait the staff upholds in their publications.
Technology is always advancing, and the newest advancement is Artificial Intelligence. People are torn on whether or not AI should be acceptable in schools.
Like everything, there’s both good and bad to AI. Unfortunately for students, the positives of using AI are few and far in between. For example, Grammarly is a good usage of AI because it’s a writing tool created to assist students in their essays and papers by running grammar checks.
Many students have reported that using Grammarly helped them in their academic writing. “I use Grammarly as a final check at the end of my essay to catch any last errors that myself, or my peer evaluators, have not yet caught. It’s a last resort to make sure everything is as clear and concise as I can make it.” Ainsley Leonard said.
A major downside for students is found in the dual credit college classes, Advanced Biology, Composition and Speech, where there is a zero-tolerance policy for the use of AI. AI is considered plagiarism in college classes. Depending on the severity, a student could receive a zero or be dropped from the class for using AI. In short, write your own stuff or get booted.
Another downside of AI is that some students are no longer submitting their own work. Instead, they are reliant on AI for homework and tests.
Academics aside, it’s important to note the environmental devastations of AI. According to the UN Environment Programme, ChatGPT uses ten times more electricity than what would be used for a Google Search. UNEP also states that the data centers used to power AI produce dangerous electronic waste, such as mercury and lead. Alongside those damages, AI microchips require rare earth elements to power them.