'' SOULLESS '' A.I. SOUP-TEST : EXERCISE PRECIS

54 ADULT students from the greater Boston area were picked and split into three groups.

One group used ChatGPT to write 20-minute essays, one used a search engine, and the final group had to make do with their brains.

The researchers used EEG devices to measure the brain activity of the students, and two teachers marked the essay.

The ChatGPT users scored significantly worse than the brain-only groups on all levels. The EEG showed that different areas of  their brains connected to each other less often.

And more than 80 per cent of the ChatGPT group could not quote anything from the essay they had just written, compared to around 10 percent of the other two groups.

By the third session, the ChatGPT group appeared to be mostly focused on copying and pasting.

The teachers said they could easily spot the '' soulless '' ChatGPT essays because they had good grammar and structure but lacked creativity, personality and insight.

This Master Precis publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks AFP.