A large-scale comparison of human-written versus ChatGPT-generated essays.

ABSTRACT: ChatGPT and similar generative AI models have attracted hundreds of millions of users and have become part of the public discourse. Many believe that such models will disrupt society and lead to significant changes in the education system and information generation. So far, this belief is based on either colloquial evidence or benchmarks from the owners of the models-both lack scientific rigor. We systematically assess the quality of AI-generated content through a large-scale study comparing human-written versus ChatGPT-generated argumentative student essays. We use essays that were rated by a large number of human experts (teachers). We augment the analysis by considering a set of linguistic characteristics of the generated essays. Our results demonstrate that ChatGPT generates essays tha

SUBMITTER: Herbold S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10616290 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature