There was a time when I had to discuss a paper that was too well written with a student. The paper was too well written in both my eyes and the eyes of others. The student told me which journals they read and explained they read it for both content and style. Were they cheating? Perhaps. On the other hand, I have never encountered a cheat who cared enough to make it look like they cared about how they approach learning.
For the record: these tools are open and available and it takes about 10 seconds for you to replicate my experiment. The value you derive from my comment should be the idea I give you, not the results I generated. My results are good but imperfect, and are the result of very little effort. Someone truly trying to cheat the system could produce way more I imagine.
The results you generated are as important as the idea because ChatGPT does not output the same thing every time.
Especially as a teacher, you get used to seeing the, uh, quality of work that gets produced. I mean that for college teachers too. At my decent state college, the quality of essay writing was atrocious and I was given 99/100 for basically "not needing any help". In college!
When you compare the average GPT output to what many students turn in at all levels, the difference is highly apparent.
This also opens up the reality that smart cheaters will prompt engineer. I just tried on GPT4
> You are an average 10th grade student. You read and write at a 9th grade level. You don't edit your work ever and your writing has run-ons, comma splices, misuse of grammar, misspellings, etc. Say OK if you understand
> Write a 5 paragraph essay about spring bird patterns in Alabama. Use an intro paragraph and a conclusion paragraph. Keep it around 500 words.
> You are doing a good job of being a 10th grade student, however I want you to do the previous command like a 10th grade student who has been trained in basic essay writing and does not write conversationally.
And it's already producing something that is far more believable lol.