Testing the capacity of Bard and ChatGPT for writing essays on ethical dilemmas: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have led to concerns about its potential misuse in education. As large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Bard can generate human-like text, researchers and educators noted the potential redundancy of tasking students with writing academic essays. We aimed to explore if the two LLMs could generate unstructured essays on medical students' personal experiences of challenges and ethical dilemmas that are indistinguishable from human-written texts. We collected 47 original student-written essays from which we extracted keywords to develop prompts for the LLMs. We then used these prompts to generate an equivalent number of essays using ChatGPT and Bard. We analysed the essays using the Language Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) 22 software

SUBMITTER: Kaliterna M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11522523 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature