is it okay to use ChatGPT for my coursework?

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Currently writing my English lit NEA (AQA), and I've been using ChatGPT to aid me. However I'm only using it for research purposes (amongst other sources) and not to write my work for me. Is this okay? Just a bit worried about the rules for plagiarism and also should I make a reference to it in my bibliography? Thanks

Reply 1

zayy_79

Yes I think it is okay for research as long as you summarise the information.

Reply 2

xyz1234567

Bear in mind it invents sources, facts, and quotes - it is not in any way reliable for research, especially in Humanities.

I would say it is not ethical to use it, but if you do, you need to double check everything it says. It is designed to predict what it thinks might be plausible, not to tell you what is actually true.

Reply 3

artful_lounger

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No, because it would be academic misconduct and more to the point as above, it's not a research tool. It generates essentially random garbage that sounds approximately correct. That does not make it correct and anyone with familiarity in the subject would immediately see that it's nonsense and you've used AI to generate parts of your work.

Just literally read actual books it's really not that hard, for thousands of years scholars have managed to write passable pieces of academic work without the mediocrity algorithm dumping out garbage onto a page. The entire point of the exercise of writing a piece of coursework is so you learn something, and you will learn nothing by asking chatGPT to generate some random nonsense.

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