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I’m curious how well this will actually help the students retain the truth.

I could see the students doubting their memory because they don’t remember if they read the information from the ChatGPT essay (which might even be correct) or their text book.

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That's a good point but these days kids are exposed to so much mis- and disinformation that we have to train them on working in a malicious information environment rather than hoping they never find themselves in one.

Text books also don't have a 100% correctness.

Unintentional mistakes in text books are usually very different though.

ChatGPT tends to just hallucinate facts which would make zero to the people (95%+) who are writing text books.

Alternatively it can just parrot random (pop history myths and stuff) it found on the internet. But it does so in a confident and pseudo-academic fashion making it even hard to discern facts from fiction.

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