hey need to move away from the take-home essay as a means of doing this, and move on to AI-proof assignments like oral exams, in-class writing, or some new style of schoolwork better suited to the world of artificial intelligence.
reading this makes me apprehensive and immediately defensive. There are lots of ways we could be cheating and while chat gpt does make it easier I hesitate to agree with the immediate conclusion that the whole format of essay writing needs to change in order to ensure students are coming up with original ideas. Essays are very essential and as a form of educational training they shouldn't be done away with entirely now that it's just easier to cheat. Maybe I just hate the idea of oral exams, but it's the same with homework- you could be cheating on your homework and the teacher would never know. but in the end it shows in your final grade through your lack of real understanding.