Using ChatGPT-3 as a writing tool: an educational assistant or a moral hazard? Current ChatGPT-3 media representations compared to Plato’s critical stance on writing in Phaedrus

Eugène Loos1, Jan Radicke2
1Utrecht University School of Governance, Bijlhouwerstraat 6, 3511 ZC Utrecht, The Netherlands
2Philosophische Fakultät, Institut Für Klassische Alterstumkunde, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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AbstractChatGPT-3, based on a large language model created by OpenAI, capable of generating human-like text, has been open to the public since November 2022. Since 2023, ChatGPT-3 has become a much-discussed educational writing tool. We elaborate on what we mean by referring to ChatGPT-3 as an educational assistant and define moral hazard. Then, we put this writing tool, as an extension of human capabilities, in a historical perspective with an analysis of Plato’s critical stance on writing in Phaedrus. After having analysed ChatGPT-3’s current representations in the media and academia, we ask ChatGPT-3 whether its writing tool should be considered an educational assistant or a moral hazard and if it could reflect on the similarity, if any, between Plato’s critical stance and ChatGPT-3 as a writing tool and comment on ChatGPT-3’s answers. Finally, we compare these to Plato’s main arguments with regard to writing and draw a number of conclusions.

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