Technology can be a highly valuable educational tool, but also a undetectable tool with which to falsify school results. For this reason, the New York City Department of Education has announced a ban on popular chatbot ChatGPT on school devices and networks.

Unlike the information found on Wikipedia, where it is necessary to think about it, the answers that ChatG PT offers, in a matter of seconds, they are customizedthat at first glance, difficult to detect deception.

Since its official launch in November, ChatGPT has been setting off alarm bells among educators and the teaching community.

Department of Education spokeswoman Jenna Lyle released a statement outlining her “concerns about the negative impact on learning and content accuracy” of ChatGPT, a chat robot that can answer questions and even to write texts in essay form.

“Due to concerns about the negative impact on student learning and concerns about content safety and accuracy, access to ChatGPT has been restricted under the New York Public School regime,” spokeswoman Jenna said. lyle.

The educational ban applies to devices and internet networks owned by the Department of Education. Individual schools will still be able to request access to ChatGPT for the specific purpose of studying artificial intelligence and related technology education.

“While this AI tool may provide quick and easy answers, it does not develop the critical thinking and problem-solving skills essential for academic and lifelong success,” he added in his statement.

After some testing, experts recognized that chatbots like ChatGPT could do this be detrimental to education