ChatGPT vs Professor: The Good, Bad, and Bizarre of Machine Writing

The new ChatGPT tool from OpenAI has rapidly garnered media attention and millions of users. Although less effective sentence generators have existed for years, ChatGPT’s novelty has drawn both the public and the reporters’ interest, and its possibilities have led to it becoming the fastest growing app in history. But when examined more closely, its seemingly miraculous capabilities are ultimately disappointing, at least when it comes to the academic writing of my discipline. Like many of m...