UConn Journalism Magazine

Dur­ing the Spring 2023 semes­ter, I took Pro­fes­sor Aman­da Serkosky’s Fea­ture Writ­ing class. One of our assign­ments was to write a trend sto­ry. My sto­ry about Chat­G­PT at the uni­ver­si­ty was pub­lished on the UConn Jour­nal­ism Mag­a­zine web­site, which fea­tures stu­dent work.

This class was a lot of fun and allowed me to expand my writ­ing skills and write news in a way I nev­er con­sid­ered before. 

 
ZeroG­PT, an AI detec­tor, detects the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence as AI GPT-gen­er­at­ed text. (Ali­cia Gomez / UConn Jour­nal­ism Magazine)

Alexa Udell, a third-year psy­chol­o­gy stu­dent, was hav­ing trou­ble in her sta­tis­tics class. She was used to using tools like flash­cards and notes to study for her psy­chol­o­gy exams, but she found her­self stumped on how to study for sta­tis­tics. Try­ing to fig­ure out the prac­tice prob­lems in her text­book felt like an impos­si­ble task. 

Des­per­ate, Udell turned to anoth­er solu­tion: Chat­G­PT, an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence nat­ur­al lan­guage mod­el. Final­ly, a weight lift­ed off her shoul­ders. She could study with­out feel­ing lost or pan­icked if the lec­ture went too fast for her to understand.

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