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Stephen Downes

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In a nutshell: "With tools such as Github CoPilot on the verge of offering automated code generation from natural language text, and GPT-3 capable of generating natural language texts that follow on from a starting phrase or paragraph, I wonder if a natural evolution for essay mills is not that they places where people will write your essay for you, but machines will (or perhaps they already are?)." This raises anew questions about what counts as cheating and not cheating, and what counts as permissible support and what does not.

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