ChatGPT is being banned by schools across the country. Here’s why. | JUST THE FAQS

Schools nationwide are banning OpenAI's ChatGPT. Here's what experts say about the future of artificial intelligence in education.

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ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is the latest viral sensation out of San Francisco-based startup OpenAI. ChatGPT launched as a prototype to the public Nov. 30, 2022. Within five days, more than a million people were using it.

It’s a free online tool trained on millions of pages of writing from all corners of the internet to understand and respond to text-based queries in just about any style you want.

You can even prompt it to write something for you – anything really and in any style – from a poem using your child’s name to song lyrics about your dog, business taglines, essays, research papers, and even software code. It types out responses in a few seconds and follows up in the same thread if you don’t like the first answer.

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