Is ChatGPT the new editor for essay writing? A deep dive.

For as long as there are students who need to write essays for a high school level or college level course, there will always be tools to assist them in making the essay writing process easier to manage.

However, with the increase in AI (artificial intelligence) in everyday technology, most users question the morality of utilizing it for fair use. ChatGPT is the latest development in the saga of generative AI, and universities have gone into the line of fire to crack down on students using it to write their classwork.

This AI uses humanlike dialogue to answer questions that the user inputs into the database. Now, it has been proven and backed that not every response has been recorded with appropriate or correct answers, so a user couldn't theoretically copy and paste the words and use them as their own. The GPT of ChatGPT stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer," which pulls from the same concept of Multimodal AI -- taking images or prompts that previously existed and providing an answer to the user that asked a question.

The ethics of AI chatbots was brought into question when colleges battled with students utilizing it to plagiarize for a get-it-written-quick scheme. With this method being so easily accessible, it has ushered in a new era of untamed writing, and professors did not know of the best way to go about solving this issue.

While generative chatbots allow multiple possibilities in outputs, it is easy to tell the difference if a student writes a college application or not. Hence the harsher crackdown in the coming months of the new semester.

As someone who has written multiple essays throughout high school and college, the majority of the writing experience is finding the proper voice to explain the answer to the question provided. That way, with practice the end result of the essay wouldn't sound as generic as say, someone prompting the question into ChatGPT for an easy way out.

Like most polarizing artificial topics, there are pros and cons to this. ChatGPT or even Bing AI, could assist writers to get from point a to point b in the writing process. What we mean by this is democratically providing assistance to students who lack the resources to write an essay but not utilizing the whole output. For, let's face it -- being a student is hard sometimes. Especially with the stress of feeling overworked or having far too much to write in such little time. When used properly, and asked specific questions, ChatGPT would be able to express if they (the students) are on the right track.

The moral of the story is that ethics has never stopped the development and evolution and science in the past. Given how fast technology evolves now, who knows how far the interface will be in three or five years from now?

The ambiguity of artificial intelligence depends on the morals of the user -- how they use it, and what side of the coin they ultimately fall on. No matter how long into human history this conversation persists, there will always be AI beside it.