It is worth noting that if you take the text directly from the chatbot and submit it, your work could be considered a form of plagiarism, since it is not your original work. As with any information taken from another source, text generated by an AI should be clearly identified and credited in your work.
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In most educational institutions, the penalties for plagiarism are severe, ranging from a failing grade to expulsion from the school.
If you want ChatGPT to create a sample piece of text, enter the topic, the desired length, and then watch what it generates. For example, I input the following text:
Can you write a five-paragraph essay on the topic, “Examining the Leadership Style of Winston Churchill through Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Leadership Grid.”
Within seconds, the chatbot gave the exact output I required: a coherent, five-paragraph essay on the topic that I could use to guide my own writing.
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At this point it’s worth remembering how tools like ChatGPT work: they put words together in a form that they think is statistically valid, but they don’t know if what they are saying is true or accurate.
As a result, the output you recieve might include invented facts or details or other oddities. The tool won’t be able to create original work because it is simply aggregating everything it has already absorbed. The output might be a useful starting point for your own work, but don’t expect it to be inspired or accurate.
