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The school year<\/span> starts soon for many students, and ChatGPT has announced a new \u201cstudy mode\u201d that aims to prevent\u2014or at least, encourage against\u2014students taking homework shortcuts.<\/p>\n The mode is designed around the Socratic method, so when activated, OpenAI\u2019s generative AI chatbot rejects direct requests for answers, instead guiding the user with open-ended questions. The new study mode is available to most logged-in users of ChatGPT, including those on the free version.<\/p>\n OpenAI has significantly disrupted the education system over the past few years, with students becoming some of the earliest adopters of ChatGPT. Even so, OpenAI claims the bot is currently an overall boon to learners\u2014if<\/em> asked to roleplay as a synthetic tutor.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen ChatGPT is prompted to teach or tutor, it can significantly improve academic performance,\u201d says Leah Belsky, a vice president of education at OpenAI, \u201cbut when it’s just used as an answer machine, it can hinder learning.\u201d<\/p>\n The problem is, no matter how engaging ChatGPT\u2019s study mode becomes as OpenAI iterates on this feature, it exists just a toggle click away from ChatGPT, with direct answers (and potential fabrications) about whatever class you’re working on. That could be quite hard to resist for younger users still developing their frontal lobe.<\/p>\n It\u2019s true that students on the hunt for easy ways to avoid engaging with the substance of a course have always had resources available to them, like the CliffNotes<\/em> series of literature summaries. Still, the immediacy and personalized nature of chatbots feels like an escalation. Multiple AI-focused smartphone apps that can solve homework problems with just a snapshot, like ByteDance\u2019s Gauth, rocket in popularity whenever the school year gets back into session. Many educators have recently raised concerns about the continued, and often secretive, use of AI by students.<\/p>\n OpenAI CEO Sam Altman doesn\u2019t buy it. \u201cI remember when I was in school\u2014junior high\u2014Google first came out and all the teachers freaked out,\u201d Altman said on a recent podcast. Similar to the internet and the calculator, Altman\u2019s sees AI as a tool capable of helping you \u201cthink better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The school year starts soon for many students, and ChatGPT has announced a new \u201cstudy mode\u201d that aims to prevent\u2014or at least, encourage against\u2014students taking homework shortcuts. The mode is designed around the Socratic method, so when activated, OpenAI\u2019s generative AI chatbot rejects direct requests for answers, instead guiding the user with open-ended questions. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[6623,6624,2076,2067,2196,188,3982],"class_list":{"0":"post-12916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-chatgpts","9":"tag-educations","10":"tag-fix","11":"tag-mode","12":"tag-problems","13":"tag-study","14":"tag-wont"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}