Noam Chomsky Calls ChatGPT "Basically a High-tech Plagiarism

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According to Noam Chomsky, a well-known intellectual researcher, and thinker in the United States, ChatGPT is “basically a high-tech plagiarism” and a “way to avoid learning.”

Chomsky also stated that the use of high-end technology by college students is an indication that “the educational system is failing.”

The comments were made by Chomsky on the YouTube channel EduKitchen, where he was asked to express his thoughts on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a chatbot that has caused quite a stir on the internet ever since it was first released in November of the previous year.

“The college essay is a thing of the past. It is a con game in which a college student sends me an electronic file that, when opened, spills out a tangle of words that the sender propounds to be a finished work — to which, presumably, the output of a machine-learning system would actually be vastly preferable. According to HT’s sister site Mint, Chomsky is quoted as saying that the majority of technology disruptions leave a mixed bag of positive and negative repercussions in their wake.

If the college essay is, as he put it, truly “unsalvageable,” then ChatGPT ought to consider replacing the essay with something “more fascinating,” if at all possible.

The 94-year-old man went on to say that children will “find a way out” if the school system does not appeal to them, does not challenge them, and does not make them want to learn.

Since its inception, the chatbot that was developed by OpenAI has, among other things, assisted a student in passing his university exam in just 20 minutes, and the bot itself has passed an exam at a law school in the United States. Students at a university in Bengaluru, India, were forbidden from using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool on campus with the intention of preventing them from utilizing it in academic activities such as exams, lab tests, and assignments.

According to reports in the mainstream media in the United States, ChatGPT has been prohibited at a number of public schools in New York City and Seattle. On the other side, students at the French institution Sciences Po were told that they risked being ejected from the institute, as well as the education system as a whole if they were found to be using the software.