Varsities, colleges in Karnataka get ready for ChatGPT threat

Higher education institutions are scrambling to tackle the threat of students using ChatGPT – the AI-driven chatbot that has taken the world by storm with its human-like responses – to write assignments and worksheets.

A few institutions have already discussed the matter, while one college principal worried that the rise of the chatbot would “kill creativity”.

At RV University, the computer science engineering department issued an internal circular asking students not to use ChatGPT and other AI-based platforms such as GitHub Copilot to write assignments.

The university has warned students that they will be asked randomly to reproduce their assignments to curb their dependence on ChatGPT.