ChatGPT is a great tool for students, however many of them use it as a default option, not a guide to help them produce original work. If I was a student, I might use ChatGPT to help me get started on an assignment or help me develop a plan for how to write it. However, what I see as an instructor is not that. Students who write poorly often copy and paste directly from AI-generated services. It's blatantly obvious. This circumvents critical thinking. Students don't reflect honestly on assignments. Their writing skills don't improve. I'm not here to speak only negatively about AI. The technology is amazing and I support it's advancement, if done so ethically and carefully. But it's already being used by students to cheat, or simply as a means to an end to get the assignment done.
