By Daisy Kim
DUBLIN, OHIO—Another technological innovation has broken through the threshold of
existence—and this time, holds a massive influence on schools. It’s called “ChatGPT”—and it’s blowing up. Basically, AI writes everything—anything—you please it to write, and the innovators behind it are hard at work to perfect the site.
A rising junior at Dublin Emeth High School, Cornelius Dupe expresses his gratitude for the
website. “It’s truly revolutionary,” he says. “I was one of the first people to discover it at our school—I was searching for a site that could write my argumentative essay because I was running late and the assignment was due at 11:59. I was down to 11:30. And then I came across this treasure, and boom, I was saved. It saved my grade.”
The assignment, assigned to the students of Mr. Wendell’s class at the end of the first semester, had around a 73% average. Cornelius was one of the only students that scored a 95%.
“I’ve never missed more than five points on an essay after that,” he rejoices. “My grade went
from a C+ to an A-.”
Of course, the remarkable discovery didn’t stay a secret for long. Soon, the word spread, and
links began to be shared all across group chats.
“My bestie sent the link to me the night before my sociology essay was due,” Macie Williams, a rising sophomore at Emeth, says. “I tried it out, and that was the best grade I’ve gotten since 5th grade.” An English teacher of eighteen years, Bob Wendell adds to the conversation. “[I’ve] never seen anything like it. All these years, I’ve been reading writing that is absolute rubbish. And all of a sudden, [the students] start pulling up with actually readable shit. I asked around, and a student told me about the
new thing.”
When we asked him what actions he took after he found out about the situation, he laughs. “It’s about time they come out with something like this. In recent months, I’ve been letting ChatGPT write my feedback paragraphs to the students. It’s grading something it wrote—[I] can’t be better than that.”
The general statistics of the entire school’s grading system have skyrocketed. Students’ mean
scores in English, History, Biology, Foreign Language, and Chemistry have jumped up an average of 16% between 2022 and 2023—a whopping two-letter increase! Subjects like Math and Orchestra have remained stagnant, however—as Emeth’s Honors Algebra 1 teacher Judy Sahr says, ”You don’t rhetorically analyze the contrast between x and y.”
“I’m just glad our school’s doing better,” says Chester Arnold, principal of Dublin Emeth High
School. “More of our students can go to college now.”
But the change is not exclusive to Emeth High School—the word is spreading rapidly, and
neighboring schools in the Dublin district are catching on. Dublin Dansel High School, only 87 miles from Emeth, has undergone a massive change since the birth of ChatGPT. A new club, called “GPTers," has arisen during the past week, with approximately 2,500 members joining in the span of seven days.
“We’re all just trying to go to college,” says the co-founder of GPTers, Jaxton Wu. “We gotta help each other out.”
The club entails weekly meetings, where members commune in the commons area and bring out their homework. As they collaborate to create the most authentic ChatGPT essays for their classes, the officers of the club walk around, aiding anyone who needs help.
“Usually it takes around thirty minutes,” says Paige Synder, a volunteer. “What volunteers like me do is make sure everyone knows how to work the site and has no trouble generating an essay. [The meeting] goes pretty quickly, but sometimes you have to run it through a couple of times so it looks good. It’s really annoying that we have to put in so much time, but we get volunteer hours.”
We also interviewed a non-member of the club, Jordan Guong. She hasn’t been using ChatGPT at all—she writes her papers the old-school way, by hand and with individual thoughts.
“I do feel like I’m behind the times,” she says. “It’s quite amazing how [the students] navigate through the site like that. It takes a lot of time and intellect to get to that point.” When asked if she plans on switching to the modern method anytime soon, she admits, “I don’t know yet. It seems really hard to learn how to use it, and I don’t know if I’m smart enough to do that. But I know I probably should—my English professor has been telling me that my essays are getting annoying to grade since the grading system switched over to ChatGPT. ”
The estimated college acceptance rate for the graduating class this year seems to be the highest of all time, thanks to the explosive boost in students’ grades.
“This is exactly what we predicted,” confirms co-founder of the phenomenal website, Saeed Kaur. “Students have to find a way to live, you know? And teachers get a chunk of their workload lifted off of them, it’s a win-win situation.”
ChatGPT is rapidly but steadily rising as one of the top multi-billionaire corporations. More and more job opportunities are opening up in the company, and many students are joining the industry immediately following their graduation.
“I’m thrilled to see all these bright younger generations interested in working at our company,” says Kaur. “A little hint for everyone applying—we like to see previous experience with our website on your resume. Make sure you attach a few examples of your GPT-ed essays to that application. We really do stress skill and originality.”
“We’re continuing to develop and enhance ChatGPT,” he adds with a wink. “Keep your eyes peeled.”
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